A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 ... the area was designated a national monument in 1906 and a national park more than a half century later. If you are traveling ...

If your destination is Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon, or even Las Vegas, add a pit stop to see another National Park Service ...

By a matter of inches and a split second, four Flagstaff people missed death on Sunday on the Flagstaff-Fort Valley road.

Arizona's Petrified Forest and Saguaro National Parks offer unique ... these anywhere else on earth. The park’s northern region contains the Painted Desert, which is an extensive series of ...

Petrified Forest National Park ... dramatic once you reach the park. Not far inside the gate, the low scrub opens into the reds, blues and grays of the Painted Desert. Most visitors drive from ...

The park also features ... of wild grasslands and Painted Desert vistas and colorful badlands. This is my Mother's park story. Here she is at age 90 having just visited Petrified Forest NP. Mother ...