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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.
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]
Regional map for Navajo Lands; Regional Map and Visitor Information for Hopi Lands; National Park Services Website – Petrified Forest National Park; Geology of the region; Grand Canyon and Other Spectacular Sights in Arizona, on-the-matrix.com, (area of Painted Desert, 7500 sq mi; Ecological Subregions of the United States – US Forest Service
Jasper Forest: This is a 2.5-mile round-trip hike where you will see substantial petrified logs and rock formations. Both hikes are off the beaten path and visitors should consult the maps at ...
Petrified Forest Member (Arizona) Show map of Arizona The Petrified Forest Member is a stratigraphic unit of the Chinle Formation in Arizona , Colorado , New Mexico , Nevada , and Utah . [ 2 ]
The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site [1] is a collection of hundreds of ancient petroglyphs near the town of Theba, Arizona, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [2] The site is operated and maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and includes an improved campground as well as an informative walking ...
Solar petroglyph at Puerco Pueblo. The site contains over 800 petroglyphs, incised on more than 100 boulders. [8] One of the petroglyphs which has been uncovered at the site appears to show the migration path from the Puerco Pueblo to the Crack-in-the-Rock site, today located within the Wupatki National Monument, dating from approximately 1150.
Black Mountain (Pima County, Arizona) Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District; ... Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park; Haleets; Lake Lenore Caves State Park;