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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 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 ...
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.
The name of the park gives it away: Most of the fossils you'll see at Petrified Forest are of exquisite petrified wood from the Triassic period over 200 million years ago.
“This new lifetime pass is a small demonstration of our nation’s gratitude and support for those who have selflessly served in the U.S. Armed Forces.” Veterans can visit national parks free ...
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]
Badlands National Park: South Dakota: $30 per-vehicle Big Bend National Park: Texas: $30 per-vehicle Fort Davis National Historic Site: Texas: $20 per-vehicle Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Texas: $10 per-person Padre Island National Seashore: Texas: $10 per-vehicle daily pass; 7-day vehicle pass available for $25 Arches National Park: Utah ...
Petrified Forest Bridge: September 30, 1988 (#88001616) November 27, 1998: Petrified Forest Park Rd. over Rio Puerco: Navajo vicinity: Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS. Removed and replaced in 1989 [9]