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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 .
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.
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 ]
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.
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.
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