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May 25, 2017
Celebrate Dinosaur Day June 6 at Petrified Forest National Park
Help us celebrate the 32nd anniversary of Gertie’s flight by watching films, looking at real fossils, experimenting with the fossilization processes, taking home a fossil cast, coloring Gertie, and experiencing a new interactive exhibit regarding evolutionary origins of early dinosaurs.

April 26, 2017
Tourism to Petrified Forest National Park Creates $45,858,200 in Economic Benefits
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 643,273 visitors to Petrified Forest in 2016 spent $41,429,100 in communities near the park.

January 24, 2017
Petrified Forest National Park Announces Free Opportunities for all 4th Graders
Petrified Forest National Park encourages all 4th graders to visit the park for free this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program which gives free access to more than 2,000 federally managed lands and waters.