Using designs by National Park Service architect Lyle Bennett, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) reconstructed the Painted Desert Inn in the late 1930s. Herbert David Lore built Painted Desert Inn (aka the Stone Tree House) by 1924. 1100-1150 and was built out of pieces of petrified wood. Puerco Pueblo was built by the ancestral Puebloan people, occupied between A.D. Over 13,000 years of human history can be found in the park, including over 800 archeological and historic sites. Hundreds of species of plants and animals can be found in the park, including elk, mule deer, pronghorn, bobcat, coyote, kitfox, badger, prairie dog, porcupine, rodents of many kinds, black-tailed jackrabbit, various bats, raven, golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, burrowing owl, horned lark, scaled quail, many songbirds, hummingbirds, roadrunner, collared lizard, bullsnake, short-horned lizard, Hopi rattlesnake, side-splotch lizard, whiptail lizard, kingsnake, spadefoot toad, tiger salamander, tarantula, scorpion, many butterflies and moths, solitary bees, tarantula hawks, carpenter ants, triops, hundreds of wildflowers, yucca, cactuses, sagebrush, skunkbush, grasses such as blue grama, juniper, cottonwood, lichen, puffballs, just to name a few. While sometimes called a high desert, the main environment of the park is Intermountain Basin semi-arid steppe and grassland (shortgrass prairie). The park has over 50,000 acres are designated The Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area (1970), one unit at the north and another at the south end of the park. The park boundary encloses 221,390 acres, with legislation in 2004 more than doubling the authorized size of the park.
Petrified Forest was designated as a national park on December 9, 1962. Theodore Roosevelt created Petrified Forest National Monument on December 8, 1906.
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