Explore Arizona’s Painted Desert: colorful badlands, easy hikes, cultural gems, and top visiting tips for a one‑of‑a‑kind ...

The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau. Its striking reds, purples, and oranges come from layered sedimentary ...

However, this northern Arizona forest is quite different — instead we see petrifie ... Visit the 100-year-old Painted Desert Inn, which was originally made from petrified wood.

The colorful otherworldly expanse of Arizona's Painted Desert inspired writer Madeleine L'Engle to pen her lauded 1962 classic "A Wrinkle In Time," reveals a new biography on the celebrated writer.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

The Painted Desert Visitor Center will remain open throughout the restoration process. Park road hours vary throughout the year. Admission to the Petrified National Forest is $10 per private vehicle.

And though HGTV does include Route 66, it fails to mention any of the magnificent Arizona attractions along the Mother Road like the Petrified Forest, Meteor Crater and the Painted Desert or towns ...

He and Yote, another street artist, did several artistic collaborations across Arizona between 2009 and 2011. They planned to get their favorite street artists to paint murals on the reservation.

And some ASU students can access the crater, in the Painted Desert about 40 miles northeast of Flagstaff, via a handful of classes that will use the crater as part of a pilot program this spring.