It gained national park status in 1962, expanding protections for its vibrant badlands, petrified wood, and archaeological sites. The Painted Desert holds great scientific, cultural, and ...

Just like Joshua Tree National Park, the state’s iconic, yet fragile, desert trees (they’re technically yucca plants) are “doomed,” according to one longtime scientist studying the species ...

“You can’t see anything (in the desert) from a car; you’ve got to get out of the… contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush ...