Discover the Painted Desert in Arizona. Learn about its colourful Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, maps, ...

Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park in the U.S. with a section of old Route 66. The park is also home to a "rainbow" forest, which has colorful tree fossils that are more than 200 ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

In an earlier Ask a Ranger column, I wrote about the topic of geoheritage sites — places of special cultural, scientific, educational or aesthetic value — and what makes those places important to ...

If you drive just a few hours northeast from Phoenix to the Petrified Forest, it almost feels like you stepped onto a different planet — albeit a colorful one full of subtle scenic and scientific ...

If your destination is Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, or even Las Vegas, add a pit stop to see another National Park Service site in Northern Arizona. Petrified Forest National Park is just a few hours ...

An underrated National Monument in the state of Arizona may become America's latest National Park, but there's both pros and ...

The park contains deposits of colorful petrified wood that are around 225 million years old. Sadly, Petrified Forest has been struggling with theft, as tourists are tempted to illegally take home ...

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change. What secrets do ...