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The Painted Desert extends roughly from Cameron–Tuba City southeast to past Holbrook and the Petrified Forest National Park. The desert is about 120 miles (190 km) long by about 60 miles (100 km) wide, making it roughly 7,500 square miles (19,420 km 2 ) in area. [ 8 ]
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 .
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 Painted Desert is a broad area of badlands located on the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona. It covers at least 146 square miles (380 km 2 ), and stretches from 30 miles (48 km) north of Cameron, near the Grand Canyon, ending just beyond the Petrified Forest . [ 26 ]
Black Rock Desert, northwest Nevada, a dry lake in the Great Basin Desert Aerial photo of the Painted Desert in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona A geological syncline in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California Unusual gypsum dunes at White Sands National Park in the Chihuahuan Desert Saguaro (detail) of the Sonoran Desert.
It is located within the Painted Desert near the western edge of the Navajo Nation. The town is served by U.S. Route 160, near the junction with Arizona State Route 264. Tuba City is located approximately 50 miles (80 km) from the eastern entrance to Grand Canyon National Park and approximately 78 miles (126 km) from Flagstaff.
The Little Colorado River (Hopi: Paayu) is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona, [2] providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region. Together with its major tributary, the Puerco River, it drains an area of about 26,500 square miles (69,000 km 2) in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
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