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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.
Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.
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.
The main building of the Painted Desert Inn was extensively rehabilitated and restored over the years, reopening as a museum and bookstore in the 1990s full time. There was an extensive period of rehabilitation for the complex 2004–2006, reopening as a museum (the park's bookstores are now at the Rainbow Forest Museum and Painted Desert ...
All that petrified wood, for one thing. Plus dino fossils, petroglyphs and amazing scenery. Best things to see and do at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert: A complete guide
Location City or town Description 1: Barth Hotel: September 5, 1975 [7] (#75000334) February 25, 1985: 187 E. Commercial St. St. Johns: Removed after being demolished in November, 1984 [8] 2: Petrified Forest Bridge: September 30, 1988 (#88001616) November 27, 1998: Petrified Forest Park Rd. over Rio Puerco: Navajo vicinity
Jasper Forest: This is a 2.5-mile round-trip hike where you will see substantial petrified logs and rock formations. Both hikes are off the beaten path and visitors should consult the maps at ...
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]