Petrified Forest National Park

Beautiful badlands.

Painted Desert Inn.
A portion of the old Route 66 cuts through the park. More than 2000 mi from Chicago to LA. Get your kicks on Route 66!

Petroglyphs.

Layers of blues, purples, and grays created by iron, carbon, manganese, and other minerals.

Petrified wood in Crystal Forest.

"We really thought we saw before us masses of wood that had floated hither, or even a tract of woodland where the timber had been felled... On closer examination we found they were fossil trees that had been gradually washed bare by the torrents..."

- Balduin Mollhausen, Diary on a U.S. expedition, 1853