Hours : Open year round except Christmas, December 25. Park hours are currently 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST) through March 3, 2007. / Painted Desert Visitor Center and Rainbow Forest Museum are also open 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, with hours changing to match those posted below. / Painted Desert Inn (a museum and bookstore) is open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm year-round. Please contact the park for seasonal hours of operation.

Admission : Private Vehicles: $10 (for 7 days) / Bicyclists and Walk-ins: $5 (for 7 days) / Petrified Forest National Park Annual Pass: $20.00

With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.