Petrified Forest National Park, 18 miles southeast of Holbrook, is world-renowned for its petrified wood deposits, but much less known for its mining history and potash deposits. The area is ...

New discoveries of small animals that lived more than 200 million years ago are changing how paleontologists think about ...

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Borth Beach has an ancient submerged petrified forest that, when the tide retreats ... The sand dunes of Ynyslas National Nature Reserve are well worth exploring too and you can walk along the ...

Petrified National Forest National Park in northern Arizona and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in south-central Arizona. Of the roughly 800,000 federal employees facing deferred pay ...

Crazy Woman Canyon is a draw for Wyomingites and visitors to Johnson County, but it’s been unexpectedly closed for the summer ...

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism officials across the state are feeling cautious, and perhaps even a ...

part of the 93,492-acre Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Prehistoric Arizona was a flat stretch of tropical turf in the northwest corner of a supercontinent known to modern geologists as ...

Think Disney is the only magical vacation? These 5 unique, budget-friendly trips offer unforgettable experiences—without the ...

There are over 60 national parks in the United States—and they're never more popular than at the peak of summer. This year, ...