Rainbow Forest Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum provides exhibits of petrified wood, fossils, and displays of prehistoric animals as well as information, book sales, and restrooms. Timeless Impressions, a free orientation film about the park, is shown continuously throughout the day.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Petrified Forest National Park
- County
- Navajo County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 24.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- nps.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 34.8152, -109.8659
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Rainbow Forest Museum is a museum near Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 24.2 out of 100, at low confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.nps.gov/pefo/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
6.3 miles away
Jasper Forest
A roadside turnout overlooks hundreds of logs that have been deposited amongst badlands through the erosion of the surrounding rocky bluffs.6.7 miles away
Agate Bridge
This bridge was created as softer rocks eroded around a large petrified log, leaving a lengthy bridge between bluffs. The early park service built several stone supports to keep the bridge from collapsing, greatly diminishing the beauty of this natural wonder.