If you'd like to spend the day exploring a truly otherworldly landscape, few destinations in Arizona are better than the Petrified Forest National Park . Contrary to what you might expect, this forest isn't full of towering green trees; instead, it's a barren landscape dotted with impressive petrified logs. The park has several Visitor Centers with informative exhibits about the area's history, but the true highlights of the park are its many walking trails, which lead past petrified logs dotted with quartz crystals, ancient petroglyphs carved into the rocks, and a unique 16th-century hut built from petrified wood.

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