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Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona: A One Day Travel Guide

Petrified Forest National Park is a beautiful area in about an hour and a half east of Flagstaff in Arizona. The park features tons of petrified wood, beautiful petroglyphs, and an awesome historic adobe hotel. You can spend a lot of time exploring this park, but if you only have one day, here is how I recommend you make the most of it.

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USA colourful petrified forest & painted desert (hd-video)

Petrified Forest national park is connected to Painted Desert and situated in east Arizona.
I have saturated the colours a bit to show the beauty of the petrified logs and the layers of coloured earth.

Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona)

Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 627,757 recreational visitors in 2017. Typical visitor activities include sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.

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USA petrified forest and painted desert national park, Arizona (hd-video)

Two parks in one! This jewel you'll find in the northeast of Arizona.
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Painted Desert - Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States

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A Walk through the PAINTED DESERT and BLUE MESA TRAIL - Petrified Forest National Park ARIZONA

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Day five of our road trip through the southwest USA tok us from Los Alamos, New Mexico to Flagstaff, Arizona. On our way through AZ we stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park for some amazing views of the Painted Desert and walked the Blue Mesa trail.

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Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert in Arizona Tour - Route 66

Tour around the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona during our Route 66 Road Trip.

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Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. About 800,000 people visit the park each year and take part in activities including sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.

Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About half of the park is designated wilderness.

The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.

The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.

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RV TOUR OF THE PAINTED DESERT & PETRIFIED FOREST IN ARIZONA

On our 2nd stop towards the East Coast, we drive through the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert to stay at a Moriarty, NM rest stop with epic amenities for overnight camping / parking right off Interstate 40.

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Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park | Route 66

Petrified Forest (which includes part of the the Painted Desert) was the first of our eight National Sites that we visited on our 2017 Spring Break Trip. This National Park is located in NE Arizona. We also stayed in the Wigwam Village located on old Route 66.

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Exploring The Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert National Park in Arizona May 18 2019

Wild Marks and Theresa's look around The Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert National Park in Arizona May 18 2019. A Amazing place we stopped to take a look at. Just another one of our Great National Parks.

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Day Trip to Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park & Painted Desert | O. Christine Travel Blog

I took a day trip to the Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert in Arizona to explore the fossils and remnants of the region from the triassic period (200 million years ago), as well as Puebloan history. It is one of my favorite National Parks in the United States.

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We found a unicorn of camping! Totally free camping near a National Park. Thanks so much to the Crystal Forest Campground for letting us crash! The rock shop and gift store there is beautiful too, we highly recommend stopping in to buy something cool!

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Day Trip: Petrified Forest National Park 2019

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Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park has the largest collection of fossilized trees in the world. 225 million years ago the trees, Araucarioxylon, Woodworthia, Schilderia, and others, fell into streams and washed into floodplains and mixed with silt, mud, and volcanic ash. Silica-laden groundwater seeped through the logs and replaced the wood tissue with silica. The silica crystallized into quartz, preserving the wood. Remnants of early human occupation of the area dating back to 1250 A.D. are found at Puerco Pueblo. The 100 room pueblo sheltered over 1,000 people. More recently, the Painted Desert Inn, built by Herbert David Lore around 1920, was used as the first overnight lodge in the area. The décor and architecture of the Painted Desert Inn reflects the awesome vistas of the surrounding beauty of the Painted Desert. The nearby trail head will lead you to a unique wilderness camping environment. Music copyright 2007 by Maury Smith. Slideshow by John Wanserski.

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