PETRIFIED FOREST Guidebook 1961

INTERPRETIVE SERVICE

You are invited to stop at the Painted Desert Orientation and Administration Building (near the entrance from U.S. 66), where you can obtain information about this and other National Park Service areas in the Southwest. And at the Rainbow Forest Visitor Center (near the entrance from U.S. 260) you may see exhibits which include a diorama, outstanding specimens of polished petrified wood, fossils, minerals, and diagrams that explain how wood becomes petrified and how the badlands were formed. Wayside exhibits at major points of interest along the route through the monument will also increase your enjoyment and understanding of the area, and they may provide the answers to the very questions that have come to your mind.

Fossil impressions of leaves in shale.