For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

Petrified Forest National Park had a problem. About a ton of wood left the park every month as entire hillsides were pillaged, the story went. Rangers did what they could to stop the plundering. They ...

They’re known as conscience letters — notes sent to the rangers at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, by visitors returning pilfered rocks. “I am writing this letter in hopes of easing my ...

HOLBROOK , Ariz. – The first letter turned up at Petrified Forest National Monument in 1935 all the way from Budaun, India. It was addressed to "The Officer in Charge." " Dear Sir," it began, the ...

Of Arizona’s three national parks, Petrified Forest is the least visited. That’s a shame, since it is absolutely stunning. Though named after the fields of petrified wood, that’s only one reason to ...

A gibbous moon shines over a large petrified log embedded in the sandstone at Blue Mesa in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park. Fred Hirschmann/Science Faction/Corbis The stories accumulate with ...

Have you ever heard of a curse associated with the Petrified Forest? Well, no, I hadn't. But turns out there is such a thing. First of all, does everyone know about the Petrified Forest? I would think ...

In case you forgot Winona, you’ll find it along Interstate Highway 40, just east of Flagstaff, where the ghost of old Route 66 still lurks. I-40 passes right through Petrified Forest, about 95 miles ...

The Terra Café presents: The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood, directed by Michael McGee. The Petrified Forest was written in 1935 during the Great Depression,as fascism rose in the world. The ...