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The Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert

The Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert

Only about 1½ hours from Show Low and the lush, verdant forests of the White Mountains, Arizona's diverse and dramatic landscape changes from pine-crested mountains to the sunbaked terrain of the Petrified Forest and lunarlike landscape of the Painted Desert.

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