Articles of category "Petrified Forest"

You will find more than just wood that time and water has transformed into rock in Petrified Forest NP (National Park). Located in northern Arizona about 3.5 hours from Phoenix, this park contains one of the worlds' largest and most colorful collections of petrified wood. It also contains badlands, part of the Painted Desert, and large deposits of fossils from the late Triassic period. Take a trip to Petrified Forest National Park and be mesmerized by what has become petrified.

At first glance one might wonder what the appeal of the Petrified Forest is. Cartoons and its name might give on the impression that the trees here are still standing, rock trees that have petrified in time. But the truth is something different, while thousands of petrified trees and logs abound here in the Petrified Forest in Arizona, they aren't standing but rather scattered throughout the area. Still the Petrified Forest offers a unique beauty that is difficult to find anywhere else.