The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau. Its striking reds, purples, and oranges come from layered sedimentary ...

The Painted Canyon trailhead is located at Painted Canyon Road in Mecca, Calif., an hour southeast of Palm Springs. If you swing a left at the giant rock arrow, it's a great 5-mile loop. And ...

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a ...

Five years ago, the Desert Hot Springs Historical Society purchased the Rock House and spent more than $200,000 in donations to fix it up, including $25,000 from the city last April.

Clearly, the two planes had struck at 21,000 ft. over the Painted Desert, the faster overtaking the slower. The dead, scattered out over 2,000 yards of arid land, had burned in the fires of the crash.

A few intrepid early desert dwellers made rock piling an occupation. At the turn of the 19 th to the 20 th century there were only a handful of non-Native American settlers in the Coachella Valley.

Occasionally, Mojave Desert-influenced art gets displayed in local government spaces, cultural centers, libraries and venues like Clark County Wetlands Park or Searchlight Community Center.

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