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Visitors On A Ranger-Led Hike Of Red Basin, Petrified Forest National Park

A ranger-guided hike over the badlands of Red Basin at Petrified Forest National Park
National Park Service
Monday, August 7, 2023

Visitors can take a ranger-led 8.5-mile roundtrip hike over Red Basin, "a fossil-rich area part of the land within the 2004 boundary expansion of Petrified Forest National Park. Along this hike you will see petrified wood, petroglyphs, unique erosional formations such as hoodoos, vibrantly colored badlands deposited over 215 million years ago, and fossil clam beds."

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