Painted Rock Mountains The Gila River crosses all of southern Arizona from southwest New Mexico, and is the drainage for about 1/2 of Arizona (the south). The highest elevation in the mountains is "unnamed" at , and is located at the central & east region of the range. (The range has many northwest-by-southeast ridgelines.) 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
Desert rose (crystal) as the official rock of the US state of Oklahoma in 1968. The average size of rose rocks are anywhere from to in diameter. The largest recorded by the Oklahoma Geological Survey was across and high, weighing . Clusters of rose rocks up to tall and weighing more than have been found. Desert rose (crystal) Desert rose is the colloquial name given to rose-like formations of crystal clusters of gypsum or baryte which include abundant sand grains. The 'petals' are crystals flattened on the "c" crystallographic axis, fanning open in radiating flattened crystal clusters. The rosette crystal habit tends to