The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock ...

The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau. Its striking reds, purples, and oranges come from layered sedimentary ...

The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert are uniquely Arizona road trip destinations. Here's why it's worth the drive and what to see along the way.

Best things to do at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert If, like most visitors, you’re just spending a day driving through Petrified Forest National Park, here are the highlights you should not ...

Location: Arizona Established: December 9, 1962 Size: 135,000 acres A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's ...

Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...

7. Watch for birds: The park staff also notes that, for birders, the Painted Desert Visitor Center Plaza and the Painted Desert Rim Trail are good areas to see various species of birds, including ...

The red-and-black volcanic cinder cone, located in Arizona’s Painted Desert, last erupted around 900 years ago. Michelle Groskopf. Turrell pointed down. “You see how ...

From the skies over Lake Mohave on the California-Arizona border one morning last week came the routine position report to Air Route Traffic Control: T.W.A. Constellation Flight 2, 10:55 a.m ...

ARIZONA (KGUN) — The Petrified Forest National Park was formed more than 200 million years ago from at least a dozen different species of trees, some of which approached nearly 200 feet in ...