Petrified Forest National Park

47 Trails 77 POIs 6 Peaks 22 Viewpoints

See your location


Plan your own route


See advanced trail stats


See the remaining hiking time to any location


Description

This portion of the Chinle Formation has a large concentration of 225-million-year-old petrified wood. The surrounding Painted Desert features eroded cliffs of red-hued volcanic rock called bentonite. Dinosaur fossils and over 350 Native American sites are also protected in this park.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Agate House Trail
  • Blue Mesa Trail
  • County Road 7156
  • Crystal Forest Trail
  • Long Logs Trail
  • Old US 66
  • Old US Highway 66
  • Pinta Road
  • Tower Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Agate Bridge
  • Black Knoll
  • Blue Mesa Viewpoint
  • Carrizo Butte
  • Chinde Point
  • Chrystal Forest Viewpoint
  • Headquarters
  • Jasper Forest Viewpoint
  • Kachina Point
  • Lacey Point
  • Lacey Point Overview
  • Newspaper Rock
  • Nizhoni Point
  • Painted Desert Diner
  • Painted Desert Inn
  • Paulcell Place
  • Petrified Forest National Park
  • Petroglyphs
  • Pinta
  • Pintado Point
  • Rainbow Forest Museum
  • Sorrel Horse Mesa
  • Tawa Point
  • The Battleship
  • The Flattops
  • Tiponi Point
  • Twin Buttes
  • Whipple Point

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Andrew Kearns https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_kearns_photography/24661171747/ CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).