Sep 28 2024
Petrified Forest National Park may be best known for brilliantly colored petrified wood and the striped badlands of the Painted Desert, but the park also protects a surprisingly rich community of living wildlife. Pronghorn move across open grasslands, coyotes hunt along washes, golden eagles soar over the badlands, and colorful collared lizards bask on sun-warmed …
Sep 28 2024
Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most unusual landscapes in the American Southwest. Brilliant pieces of petrified wood lie scattered across rolling grasslands and eroded badlands, while the colorful hills of the Painted Desert stretch toward the horizon in bands of red, orange, purple, blue, gray, and white. Yet petrified logs are only …
Jan 27 2024
Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most unusual landscapes in the American Southwest. Spread across the high plains of northeastern Arizona, the park protects vast deposits of brilliantly colored petrified wood, striped badlands, sweeping grasslands, ancient petroglyphs, historic buildings, fossils, and a surviving piece of Route 66. The name can be slightly misleading …
