Painted+Desert

Painted Desert It is over 93,500 acres and stretches over 160 miles. It starts at about 30 miles north of Cameron, Arizona near the southeastern rim of the Grand Canyon to the Petrified Forest (about 26 miles east of Holbrook, AZ). It got its name because of its multiple colors from shades of grays to colors of red, orange, and pink. It is a unique landscape of a rainbow of colors. The desert is composed of layers of siltstone and mudstone. The mesas are filled with volcanic ash and limestones. The volcanic ash in Chile provide silica for the petrified logs.