Painted Desert Inn 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" were designed in the Pueblo Revival style, by National Park Service architect Lyle E. Bennett and others from the Park Service Branch of Plans and Design. Construction was carried out by Civilian Conservation Corps builders and artisans over 1937–1940. A portion of the main lodge building was remodeled from the 1920s inn on the site, known
The Painted Stallion shot in the Coachella Valley, California. "The Painted Stallion"'s official release date is 5 June 1937, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges. A 67-minute feature film version, created by editing the serial footage together, was released on 11 February 1938. It was one of fourteen feature films Republic made from their serials. In the early 1950s, "The Painted Stallion" was one of fourteen Republic serials edited into a television series. It was broadcast in six 26½-minute episodes. On December 27, 2005, a Region 0 DVD of the serial was released by