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petrified forest NATIONAL PARK
Petrified forest national park is located in northeastern Arizona. The famous Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles runs right through the park. But the park is not famous for this, but for the fact that dinosaur bones are found among its colorful badlands, and most importantly - trees petrified in antiquity!
Petrified Forest National Park was founded in 1905, first as a national monument, and then became a national park in 1962. Its territory is divided into two parts: the Petrified Forest proper and the northern part of the Painted Desert. The legendary Route 66 passes right between them - the road many tourists dream to travel along.
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One of the unusual attractions in Petrified Forest is the old Painted Desert Inn cafe and hotel on old Route 66 (I-40), a must-see stop for all travelers. In their well-preserved interiors, you can feel like in the 50s of the last century.
The main part of the Petrified Forest Park is located south of Route 66 and has not only found dinosaur skeletons, which are displayed in the main visitor center of the Rainbow Forest Museum, but also trees buried in the Tertiary period. These trees are no longer trees at all, but stones. They have completely lost their cellular structure, but they still look as if someone had spread the felled blocks of wood across the fields. And there are also badland hills, several Indian ruins and rocks with petroglyphs.
Official name - PETRIFIED FOREST National Park
Mailing Address: 1 Park Road, #2217
Petrified Forest, AZ 86028
Area: 221,391 acres
Coordinates: 35°05′17″N 109°48′23″W
Established - 1962
Attendance - 650.000 people per year