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Petrified Forest National Parkpedestal log, Photo by Marge Post/NPS
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Petrified Forest National Park
Outdoor Activities
 

Outdoor park activities include sightseeing, photography, hiking, horseback riding, backpacking, photography, and bird watching. The park has over 52,000 acres of designated Wilderness you can explore!

Many of our ranger programs are conducted outdoors, often along popular trails. 

While exploring outdoors, it is tempting to take a small piece of petrified wood. But removal of petrified wood or other natural and cultural artifacts found in the park is prohibited by law. Gift shops inside and outside the park sell petrified wood collected from private land outside the park boundaries. 

walking the Giant Logs Trail
Trails
Walk amongst petrified logs, badland hills, and puebloan sites.
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hiking in the Painted Desert
Backpacking
Stay overnight in the Wilderness Area.
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Painted Desert Wilderness
Wilderness Virtual Tour
Explore the Wilderness Area and its many resources.
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black on white pot sherds  

Did You Know?
Petrified Forest National Park has one of the most diverse collections of prehistoric pottery fragments in the Southwest.

Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:23 EST