Painted Desert & Petrified Forest

The Painted Desert and Petrified Forest are located in northeastern Arizona near Holbrook. Petrified Forest National Park is the best location in the USA to see petrified wood. You'll also find a vast array of prehistoric fossils and petroglyphs. A scenic drive runs through the park, also passing a section of the Painted Desert which derives its name for the multitude of colors ranging from lavenders to shades of gray with vibrant colors of red, orange and pink. It is a long expanse of badland hills and buttes and although barren and austere, it is a beautiful landscape of a rainbow of colors.