There’s beautiful trails and a storybook lake at the Escalante Petrified Forest State Park near Escalante, along with plenty of campsites and a luxurious bathroom facility — the floor is heated and ...

For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

It must be nice for the politicians, billionaires, celebrities, academics and media elites who live in bubbles of privilege, luxury and protection floating aimlessly above working class, poor and ...

They’re known as conscience letters — notes sent to the rangers at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, by visitors returning pilfered rocks. “I am writing this letter in hopes of easing my ...

HOLBROOK , Ariz. – The first letter turned up at Petrified Forest National Monument in 1935 all the way from Budaun, India. It was addressed to "The Officer in Charge." " Dear Sir," it began, the ...

Petrified Forest National Park is known for its fossilized ancient wonders — petrified wood, dinosaurs, reptiles and animals that have been extinct for millions of years. It has recorded ...

2007-07-08 04:00:00 PDT Yakima , Wash.-- Clyde Friend's life changed the moment his bulldozer hit the first tree on a hot summer afternoon in 2002 as he leveled a hill behind his workshop. Chips flew ...

Petrified wood is a fossil that is the remains of ancient vegetation, most commonly ancient trees. It occurs by a natural action known as permineralization, a process in which mineral deposits take on ...

IS SET TO OPEN NEXT SPRING. AND SEMINOLE COUNTY, A POPULAR LOCAL HAUNT, IS FADING INTO THE GHOSTLY MIST THIS WEEKEND. I TRIED J. THAT WAS AWESOME. A PETRIFIED FOREST IN ALTAMONTE SPRINGS WILL SHUT THE ...

Experts have made an “extraordinary” discovery of a tree which is still intact after being petrified by a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago in Lesbos, Greece. Lesbos’ Petrified Forest was formed ...

The new attraction looms over other minerals and gems in the museum’s main hall. The massive trunk stands nine feet tall and weighs four tons. The pre-historic log comes from a rare mineral deposit in ...