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  2. Best things to see and do at Petrified Forest and Painted ...

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    All that petrified wood, for one thing. Plus dino fossils, petroglyphs and amazing scenery. Best things to see and do at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert: A complete guide

  3. Petrified Forest National Park - Wikipedia

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    Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood , the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands .

  4. Painted Desert (Arizona) - Wikipedia

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    Much of the Painted Desert within Petrified Forest National Park is protected as Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area, where motorized travel is limited. [4] The park offers both easy and longer hikes into the colored hills. The Painted Desert continues north into the Navajo Nation, where off-road travel is allowed only by permit.

  5. Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work ...

  6. Why Petrified Forest National Park deserves to be a ... - AOL

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    Here’s what travelers should know about Petrified Forest, the latest national park in USA TODAY’s yearlong series. Petrified Forest National Park's Jasper Forest may not look like a typical ...

  7. Painted Desert Inn - Wikipedia

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    Painted Desert Inn is a historic complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County, eastern Arizona. It is located off Interstate 40 and near the original alignment of historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert. [3]

  8. Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District - Wikipedia

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    The Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District is part of the Petrified Forest National Park, and contains in excess of 650 petroglyphs, believed to have been created 1000–1500 CE. [citation needed] This Apache County site near Adamana, Arizona was listed on the National Register of Historic Places July 12, 1976. [2]

  9. List of World Heritage Sites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Petrified Forest National Park: Arizona: 2008 vii, viii (natural) The park, located in the southern Colorado Plateau, is rich in fossil remains from the Late Triassic. There are assemblages of petrified trees, appearing at different stratigraphic levels, which allows paleontologists to study the ecosystem changes of that time. There are also ...