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 Desert Sun The Desert Sun The Desert Sun is a local daily newspaper serving Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley in Southern California. It is owned by Gannett publications since 1988 and acquired the Indio "Daily News" in 1990 to become the sole local newspaper. First issued on August 5, 1927, as a weekly six-page newspaper, "The Desert Sun" grew with the desert communities. It covers local, state, national and world news, and has developed a variety of sections over time. The newspaper began to publish six days a week in 1948 and had their first Sunday edition on September 8,