Petrified Forest

Home to one of the world’s largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, Petrified Forest National Park protects a striking landscape of painted badlands, prehistoric fossils, and remnants of ancient human civilizations. Stretching across the high desert of northeastern Arizona, the park is divided into two major regions—the Painted Desert in the north and the Rainbow Forest in the south—connected by a scenic 28-mile park road. Discover rainbow-hued petrified logs, vast vistas of red, pink, and purple clay hills, and ancestral Puebloan sites that tell the story of over 13,000 years of human history. Quiet and surreal, Petrified Forest is one of the most unique geological experiences in the National Park System. Read more . . .