Painted Desert Inn not currently available at the inn. Hopi artist Fred Kabotie was engaged by Colter to paint the Inn's murals in 1947–48. Colter knew Kabotie from a previous collaboration at the Fred Harvey Hopi House in Grand Canyon National Park. Kabotie's work depicts aspects of Hopi life, including a journey through the Painted Desert to collect salt. Painted Desert Inn Painted Desert Inn is a lodge complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County, eastern Arizona. It is located off of Interstate 40 and historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert. The inn's lodge building and adobe guest cabins−"casitas"
U-S-A! U-S-A! "U-S-A!" is a chant of the United States of America's initials popular in expressing U.S. pride and supporting U.S. national sports teams. It is also used in other community events, such as at political rallies, and at times it has been used to satire jingoistic or mindless group behavior. The film "Olympia: Festival of Nations", documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, includes the chant during the finals of the 1,500 meter event and the long jump. It was also documented at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, during the basketball tournament final between the United States and the Soviet