You can get into Arizona national parks for free on Saturday

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - You can visit our national parks for free today!

The waived fees on Saturday, April 22nd are to celebrate the start of National Park Week. Arizona is home to three national parks, and more than 20 other national monuments and historic sites. Whitney Clark with Arizona’s Family recently traveled to the Petrified Forest National Park for a hike, where the landscape makes you feel like you’re on another planet.

A weekend well spent at a real gem in Arizona: @PetrifiedNPS.

📍Blue Mesa and Blue Forest Trails. pic.twitter.com/ujP5jdTFXL
— Whitney Clark (@whitneyclarktv) April 12, 2023

The Blue Mesa Trail is about a mile long and a good option if you want to check out the badland hills. It takes about three-and-a-half to four hours to drive there from central Phoenix.

The national park is off the I-40 outside of Holbrook. According to the National Park Service, about 800,000 people travel there every year. Read more about it here.

Here’s a list of the other national parks and monuments in Arizona:

Canyon de Chelly, national monument, Chinle, Arizona
Casa Grande Ruins, national monument, Coolidge, Arizona
Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox, Arizona
Coronado National Memorial, Hereford, Arizona
Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Willcox, Arizona
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah and Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon-Parashant, Northern Arizona
Hubbell Trading Post, national historic site, Ganado, Arizona
Juan Bautista de Anza, national historic trail, Nogales Arizona to San Francisco, California
Lake Mead, national recreation area, Mohave Desert, Arizona and Nevada
Montezuma Castle, national monument, Camp Verde, Arizona
Navajo National Monument, Black Mesa, Arizona
Old Spanish Historic Trail
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park
Pipe Spring National Monument, Fredonia, Arizona
Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Flagstaff, Arizona
Tonto National Monument, Roosevelt, Arizona
Tumacacori National Historic Park, Tumacacori, Arizona
Tuzigoot National Monument, Clarkdale, Arizona
Walnut Canyon National Monument, Flagstaff Arizona
Wupatki National Monument, Flagstaff, Arizona

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