Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. The park is right off Interstate 40 in ...

For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

Petrified Forest National Park had a problem. About a ton of wood left the park every month as entire hillsides were pillaged, the story went. Rangers did what they could to stop the plundering. They ...

Of Arizona’s three national parks, Petrified Forest is the least visited. That’s a shame, since it is absolutely stunning. Though named after the fields of petrified wood, that’s only one reason to ...

When it comes to his love for our National Parks, our Conor Knighton makes no apologies. Not so for some of the visitors who preceded him to his latest stop: Matt Smith is the museum curator at ...

PHOENIX– The Petrified Forest National Park announced that tourism generated over $68 million in economic benefits last year, officials said Wednesday. The report showed that, in 2020, tourists in the ...

The buildings at Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona are held up as prime examples of modern architecture for their flat roofs, low silhouettes and large windows that open to the ...

They’re known as conscience letters — notes sent to the rangers at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, by visitors returning pilfered rocks. “I am writing this letter in hopes of easing my ...

HOLBROOK , Ariz. – The first letter turned up at Petrified Forest National Monument in 1935 all the way from Budaun, India. It was addressed to "The Officer in Charge." " Dear Sir," it began, the ...

The University of Arizona women’s basketball team (9‑3) suffered a close defeat against the University of Utah Utes (10‑3), falling 63–62 on Monday, Dec. 22 in McKale Center. Despite a determined ...