Petrified Forest: Beauty, Mystery, and Catastrophic History
Luke Wayne - March 07, 2025 The splendor and importance of this fossilized arbor is hard to overstate. But how did it get here? Arizona's Ultimate Rock Garden: The Petrified Forest Roughly two hours down I-40 East from Flagstaff, or about fifty miles before you reach the New Mexico border, you’ll find one of Northern Arizona’s true gems—the beautiful mystery of Petrified Forest National Park. In 1906, when the passing of the Antiquities Act first gave U.S. Presidents the power to create National Monuments, Petrified Forest became one of Arizona’s
