This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.

Petrified Forest National Park: www.nps.gov/pefo

Exit 311
Interstate 40
Petrified Forest, AZ 86028 

Visitor Information: 928-524-6228 

For maps of the park, area, and specific sites, click here and here. 

For information about bringing pets, click here.

Fees

Standard Pass:

• Seven-day vehicle access: $25
• Seven-day motorcycle access: $20
• Seven-day per person access (pedestrians and bicyclists): $15

Petrified Forest National Park Annual Pass: $45

American the Beautiful Annual Pass (including Senior Passes): FREE - $80

Friends Organizations and Cooperating Associations

Friends of Petrified Forest National Park helps ensure that this national park is preserved as a natural area for education and recreation and brings expertise to the planning and support of research projects and educational endeavors designed to study, evaluate, and interpret the natural and cultural resources of the park.

Petrified Forest Museum Association promotes interpretive and education programs, scientific research, and resource understanding in addition to producing park-specific publications and materials.

Helpful Books

The Painted Desert, Land of Light and Shadow

Available in the park's visitor centers, this large-format, 56-page book was a collaboration by Rose Houk (who also has written a natural history guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and worked with photographer Michael Collier on The Mountains Know Arizona: Images of the Land and Stories of its People, which won a National Outdoor Book award) and George Huey, a landscape and natural history photographer whose credits include National Geographic projects. Together the two take you across the Painted Desert landscape, describing in words and photos its incredible past and present. 

Petrified Forest, A Story in Stone 

Written by Dr. Sidney Ash, an adjunct professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, and illustrated with the photographs of T. Scott Williams, whose background includes producting documentary and archival images for the Smithsonian Institution, this book complements the one on the Painted Desert with a greater emphasis on the geology, paleontology, and ancient cultures that lived on this landscape.