The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau.

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

Standing on the rim of an ancient volcanic crater in northern Arizona, with the Painted Desert as a spectacular backdrop, James Turrell surveys all he has wrought. For a quarter of a century ...