Articles of category "Petrified Forest National Park, AZ"

Do you enjoy including culture in your vacations? Do museum visits and sightseeing sound like worthwhile activities to you? Do you wish to take photographs that will make your vacation album the envy of the neighborhood? Do you like to include some exercise, such as hiking, and also some adventure, like wilderness backpacking trips, in your long awaited vacation? If you answer yes to any or even all of these questions, then a trip to the famous Arizona Petrified Forest is for you!

The Petrified Forest refers to the national park in Arizona that contains the world's largest concentration of fossilized prehistoric logs and trees. Why do thousands of people make the trip to this relatively out of the way park, just to see a bunch of hardened mineralized wood? The answer lies in the intriguing scent of the place, and its surprising, almost surreal beauty.