Painted Desert (Arizona) A permit is required for all backroad travel on the Navajo Nation. Painted Desert (Arizona) The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park. It is most easily accessed in the north portion of Petrified Forest National Park. The Painted Desert is known for its brilliant and varied colors, that not only include the more common red rock, but even shades of lavender. The Painted Desert was named by an expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Tule Desert (Nevada) Tule Desert (Nevada) The Tule Desert is located in southeastern Nevada in Lincoln County, near the Utah state line. The desert lies northeast of the Mormon Mountains, south of the Clover Mountains and west of the Tule Springs Hills. The desert descends from an elevation of around on the foothills of the Clover Mountains west of Lime Mountain to around about to the south-southeast at the narrow Toquop Gap between the East Mormon Mountains and the Tule Springs Hills. A number of washes drain the desert in a generally north-south direction. The Tule Desert Well lies west of Jumbled Mountain