Americas Best Value Inn Holbrook Hotel near Meteor Crater AZ.

Holbrook, Arizona: Holbrook is on the banks of the Little Colorado River in northeastern Arizona's Navajo County high plateau country. In 1881 railroad tracks were laid in northeastern Arizona passing through an area known as Horsehead Crossing. The following year a railroad station was built at Horsehead Crossing and the community's name was changed to Holbrook in honor of H. R. Holbrook, first chief engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Holbrook, at an elevation of 5,080 feet, became the county seat of Navajo County in 1895 and was incorporated in 1917.

A variety of attractions surround Holbrook. To the north is the rugged plateau country with striking canyons containing prehistoric cliff-dwellings, such as those found in Canyon de Chelly. Much of the plateau country is Navajo and Hopi Reservation land. These reservations offer unique attractions including ceremonial dances, tribal events, and Indian arts and crafts.
Meteor Crater: Located in Northern Arizona, a visit to the Meteor Crater Visitor Center provides you with an enjoyable educational experience in well maintained, modern facilities, which are kept spotlessly clean. The former Museum of Astrogeology has been remodeled and includes new displays on the never-ending process of impacts and collisions in our solar system. The Meteor Crater Interactive Learning Center includes twenty-four exciting exhibits, making it the most extensive and informative museum of its type on planet earth. Also included in the Learning Center are two interactive computer displays that contain information and high-tech graphics on space, meteorites and asteroids, the solar system, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that impacted Jupiter. The Meteor Crater is located off Interstate 40 at exit 233, 35 miles East of Flagstaff, 20 miles West of Winslow, in Arizona.

Meteor Crater Visitor Center is open daily. Visitation hours are as follows:
Memorial Day to September 15th 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Rest of the year 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Petrified Forest - Painted Desert: One of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.

The Painted Desert covers an area of 93,533 acres that stretches southeast from the Grand Canyon to the Petrified Forest National Park. The desert derives its name from the multi-hued badlands of the Chinle Formation rocks that cover the park

ENTRANCE FEES AND HOURS OF OPERATION:

Private Vehicles: $10 (for 7 days)
Bicyclists and Walk-ins: $5 (for 7 days)
Petrified Forest National Park Annual Pass: $20.00
All U.S. military veterans and current members of the U.S. armed forces

Open year round except Christmas, December 25
Park hours are currently 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST) through summer 2008.
Painted Desert Visitor Center is open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. MST.
Rainbow Forest Museum is open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. MST.
Painted Desert Inn National Historic Landmark (a museum and bookstore only)
is open 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MST year-round.
Park hours will change on September 2: 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. MST through October 25, 2008.
Park hours will change on October 26: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MST through Winter 2008/2009.
Park and Visitor Center hours are subject to change