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The Painted Desert was named by a Spanish expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado during his 1540 quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola. He located these some 40 miles (60 km) east of Petrified Forest National Park .
- Zhangye National Geopark. The Zhangye National Geopark in Gansu, China is home to a series of vibrant mountain ridges of many colors. The bands of red, blue, and orange striping the hillsides are composed of sandstone and calcium deposits that date back 120 million years.
- Painted Hills. Part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon, the Painted Hills are smooth, colorful hills composed of volcanic ash. The striking blood-red layers are due to bands of laterite, a soil type that is rich in iron and aluminum.
- Petrified Forest National Park. Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park is home to multicolored mesas, hills, and bluffs in a section of the park called the Painted Desert.
- Landmannalaugar. Landmannalaugar is a region of interior Iceland marked by hot springs, volcanoes, and multicolored mountains. The peaks here are primarily dark gray or black, but have streaks of blue, pink, and orange as well.
- Montezuma Castle. Named after the legendary Aztec king, Montezuma Castle is a misnomer. The ancient people who built it had nothing to do with the Aztecs (unless they traded with them), and they built it about a thousand years before king Montezuma was born.
- Tuzigoot. About 25 miles from Montezuma Castle, the ruins of Tuzigoot preserve another village built by the Sinagua. A much larger community, Tuzigoot was home to about 250 people living in a citadel of about 110 rooms on top of a hill.
- Cliff Dwellings At Walnut Canyon. Sinagua communities also lived in and around the area known today as Walnut Canyon, near Flagstaff. They farmed the canyon rim, growing corn, squash, and beans from about 600 AD.
- Wupatki Ruins. Near Sunset Crater — between the Painted Desert and the highest peaks of Arizona filled with Ponderosa Pines — the ruins of Wupatki remind us of the ancient civilization that lived here shortly after the eruption of the youngest volcano in the area.
Much of this colorful destination lies in remote areas of the Navajo Nation, where tribal regulations are enforced. To see the colorful hills, flat-topped mesas and weathered buttes in Arizona’s arid high desert, visitors start at the Painted Desert Visitor Center located off exit 311 on I-40.
Apr 8, 2014 · The Painted Desert Project. by James Cowlin | Apr 8, 2014 | 3 comments. The last place you would expect to find street art is along US Route 89 on the Navajo Reservation. But there it is. You can’t miss it as you head north from Flagstaff. It’s on tanks and roadside jewelry stands.
Feb 3, 2015 · Situated right at the New Mexico-Arizona border, Lupton, also known as Painted Cliffs, invites you with high sandstone bluffs, where statuesque figures of deer, bear, and eagles peer down from above. These beautiful cliffs, formed from 60 to 200 million years ago, typify the stark, lonely beauty of the Indian country to the north.
Flagstaff is a city in, and the county seat of, Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. Established as a modern settlement in 1876 and incorporated as a city in 1928, the land had previously been lived on by native peoples of the southwest, primarily the Sinagua.
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