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The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area, [2] running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park. It is most easily accessed from the north portion of Petrified Forest National Park.
The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program.
Painted Desert Inn is a historic complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County, eastern Arizona. It is located off Interstate 40 and near the original alignment of historic U.S. Route 66 , overlooking the Painted Desert .
What's special about Petrified Forest and Painted Desert? All that petrified wood, for one thing. Plus dino fossils, petroglyphs and amazing scenery.
The Painted Desert derives its name from the multitude of colored sediments and bentonite clay seen from its Chinle rock formation, left exposed by erosion. In the southern portion of the desert, the remains of a Triassic period coniferous forest have fossilized over millions of years. Most of the Painted Desert is located within the Navajo ...
Painted Desert (Arizona), an area of badlands in the southwestern United States Painted Desert Inn, a lodge at the Petrified Forest National Park; Painted Desert (South Australia), a mountainous area in south-central Australia; Painted Desert, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, US
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The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site [1] is a collection of hundreds of ancient petroglyphs near the town of Theba, Arizona, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [2] The site is operated and maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and includes an improved campground as well as an informative walking ...