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Pictures of the Petrified Forest And The Painted Desert

By AZ Leisure Staff Writers

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Browse pictures and photos of Petrified Forest National Park and the stunning Painted Desert in northeastern Arizona. This unique landscape is known for colorful striped hills, vast desert vistas, ancient petrified wood, dramatic skies, and changing light that creates exceptional photography opportunities throughout the year. From sunrise overlooks to scenic drives and close-up textures in fossilized logs, the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert offer some of Arizona’s most memorable photo locations.

A sea of every pastel color imaginable. The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert are like another world. An absurd kind of beauty. Yet visions that are stunning. Views that stretch to almost endless horizons. While some scenes may be a bit featureless, others are innately wondrous with colors difficult to comprehend.

Colorful Painted Desert landscape near Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

Best Pictures of Petrified Forest National Park

Colorful Painted Desert landscape near Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona

Petrified Wood in the Petrified Desert

Wide Painted Desert badlands view near Petrified Forest Arizona

Layered Painted Desert hills with scenic desert colors in Arizona

Painted Desert overlook with striped hills and open sky in Arizona

Blue Mesa colorful eroded hills in Petrified Forest National Park

Blue Mesa trail landscape with blue and purple desert ridges

Ancient petroglyphs carved in rock at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Petrified wood deposits in Rainbow Forest area of Arizona

Ancient Ruins in the Petrified Forest

Prehistoric stone pueblo ruin in Petrified Forest National Park

Scenic drive view across Painted Desert in northeastern Arizona

Storm clouds above Painted Desert landscape in Arizona

Layered Painted Desert hills with scenic desert colors

Skeleton of a car from days gone by in the Painted Desert

It's history of an unimaginable 225 million years that slowly evolved what was once a tropical environment into a barren badland of trees that turned to stone and slow-moving erosion that exposed this land of a million colors.

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