Painted Rock Mountains Painted Rock Mountains The Painted Rocks Mountains are a short 15-mile (24 km) long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County. The Gila River flows through the central-north end of the range. The famous Painted Rock Petroglyph Site lies at the northeast end of the range, adjacent the Painted Rock Reservoir, and the reservoir lies at the eastern end of the agricultural river valley that is locally names as the Lower Gila River Valley, extending approximately from the Colorado River at Yuma to the west and the reservoir at the east.
The Oregon Desert bobcat food, and high desert ghost towns. From its first release in 1964, "The Oregon Desert" has received excellent reviews from numerous sources. On 7 October 1964, the Eugene "Register-Guard" newspaper said: To commemorate Oregon's sesquicentennial in 2009, the Oregon State Library recommended 150 Oregon-related books including "The Oregon Desert". According to the Oregon State Library, this book is "a classic account of the places, events, animals and people in the High Desert region." In highlighting "The Oregon Desert" in its section on Oregon authors and books, the Oregon Blue Book quoted from Google Books as follows: "The Oregon Desert"