The Petrified Forest National Park is about three hours east of the Grand Canyon, one hour east of Flagstaff, Arizona and three hours west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The painted desert spans from the east side of the Grand Canyon to the northern border of the Petrified Forest. AS the Pai...
we opted for a trip into the Painted Desert Wilderness Area, within Petrified Forest National Park. The Painted Desert Wilderness occupies some 43,020 acres within the northern part of the larger National Park,
Painted Desert, section of the high plateau in north-central and northeast-central Arizona, U.S. The Painted Desert extends from the Grand Canyon in a southeasterly direction along the north side of the Little Colorado River to Holbrook. It is approximat