That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.

Petrified Forest National Park is world- renowned for its petrified wood deposits, but much less known for its mining history and potash deposits.

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and stunning petrified wood. This unique park showcases remnants of a ...

PHOENIX — Environmental groups are trying to halt a plan by the Bureau of Land Management to lease out more than 4,000 acres of land near Petrified Forest National Park for oil and gas exploration.

I've been to all 63 US national parks and ranked them from my least favorite to my top pick. I think parks like Congaree, Petrified Forest, and Channel Islands are best suited for a day trip.

The stony trees, felled millions of years ago, are scattered across Petrified Forest National Park, a geological reminder of eons past when the high desert was a verdant landscape.

The Petrified Forest National Park also attracts paleontologists from around the world, who have uncovered fossils more than 200 million years old - the age referred to as 'The Dawn of the Dinosaurs'.