Petrified Forest National Park is easy to explore, learn, and appreciate one of the Southwest’s unique landscapes.

Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. The park is right off Interstate 40 in ...

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 ...

There’s beautiful trails and a storybook lake at the Escalante Petrified Forest State Park near Escalante, along with plenty of campsites and a luxurious bathroom facility — the floor is heated and ...

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.

Finds in Petrified Forest National Park date between 200 A.D. and 700 A.D. Archaeologists surveying land acquired by Petrified Forest National Park have found traces of two ancient villages. The flags ...