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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 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 ]
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.
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.
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