A landscape where deep time lies fully on display, Petrified Forest National Park blends colorful badlands, vast grasslands, and one of the world’s largest and most vivid collections of petrified wood. Spanning more than 200 million years of geologic history, the park protects ancient fossils, ancestral Puebloan sites, habitat for desert animals, and a sweeping stretch of historic Route 66. Operating-hours data available from NPS. Entrance-fee data available from NPS.
Use this park condition page to compare map context, current alerts, facilities, weather, and planning recommendations before shaping a one-day visit.
For a perfect Petrified Forest day, start with the official alert status, then decide which mapped stops, short walks, scenic drives, and backup options still fit your group.
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Forecast
Showers And Thunderstorms Likely
Coverage: stale
Air quality
Unavailable
Coverage: unavailable
Sunrise / sunset
5:52 AM MST / 6:45 PM MST
774 daylight minutes
Major alerts
0
Limited current data
Planning help
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Planning help
Petrified Forest
Application derived
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Park map layers
Petrified Forest activity map
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Facilities and recreation
Mapped places to consider, with limits in mind.
Activity
9 official or mapped records available here
Place
78 official or mapped records available here
Visitor Center
3 official or mapped records available here
Sources and freshness
Where these notes come from.
Official: NPS park profile, alerts, links, and cached feature records.
Community-mapped: OpenStreetMap features and amenities where available.
Application-derived: Scoring, daylight, freshness, data coverage, and condition labels.
AI explanation: Plain-language summaries over selected facts only.
