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Petrified Forest National Park

Description: P.O. Box 2217, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ 86028. Visitor Information - 520-524-6228. Fax- 520-524-3567. Email: ... more

Petrified Forest National Park ... PEFO_Superintendent@nps.gov

Newest Review: ... if you will be staying overnight in the wilderness. in addition to geologic features, Petrified Forest National Park has a number of significant Indian sites within it's boundaries. Spurs from the park road allow access to each and have parking lots, overlooks and trails with interpretive panels to explain what you can see. There are three main. Puerco Pueblo - A number of partly ... more

... restored and excavated rooms of a 13th century pueblo. A short interpretive trail makes a circuit of the site. Agate House - A second pueblo building, this time made from piece of petrified wood. The original structure had no windows, with access via ...more

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Express Review on Petrified Forest National Park
by - written on 11/03/03
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Don't be scared to go - Advantages: Stunning scenery, Unique & memorable, Worth the drive - Disadvantages: Long drive needed, Scorching summer

National Park Primer - Petrified Forest, Holbrook, Arizona (1129 words)
by - written on 28/12/02 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Petrified Forest National Park is located near the Arizona - New Mexico border on Interstate 40. The main access towns are Flagstaff, AZ and Grants, NM. The small town of Holbrook, AZ is on the park's doorstep, but is a less attractive and less interesting place to stay. Petrified Forest National Park was established first as a National Monument on December 8, 1906 and then as a National Park on December 9, 1962. On both occasions the motivation was preservation of the dwindling deposits of petrified wood lying exposed among the banded earth. What is Petrified Wood? Well, if we pop back 225 million years we can find out. At this time the area was a ... Read the complete review

Petrified Forest National Park: Scared ? I was petrified! (981 words)
by - written on 24/08/01 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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Well maybe not quite unless I was terrorised by lots of petrified wood. The Petrified Forest National Park is probably one of the strangest places that I have visited. For a start it's not even a forest - well not in the true sense of the word. There are no trees left, they are broken up and scattered over a wide area but even still they are a sight to behold. The trees have become petrified due to a process that takes thousands of years and I'll briefly explain how this happens. The trees here are conifers that date from the time of the dinosaurs (Triassic period for fellow history buffs out there!). They were washed by floods into the area that ... Read the complete review