A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 ... the area was designated a national monument in 1906 and a national park more than a half century later. If you are traveling ...

The park is also part of the Painted Desert, an area filled with colorful hills and vivid flat landforms called mesas. Moreover, Petrified Forest National Park was once home to dinosaurs ...

Petrified Forest National Park is the kind of place that sneaks ... blues and grays of the Painted Desert. Most visitors drive from one end to the other, perhaps stopping to wander loops lined ...

Travel the park road to see sites including Historic Route 66, Desert Views, Blue Bentonite Mesas, petrified wood, petrified ...