Painted Desert Inn

A stone inn inside Petrified Forest National Park, built from petrified wood and later rebuilt in Pueblo Revival style.

Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

About Painted Desert Inn

The Painted Desert Inn sits in Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona, overlooking the Painted Desert near the old Route 66 alignment. Herbert David Lore began it as a roadside stop built of petrified wood and native stone. Its foundation sat on shifting clay, so the Civilian Conservation Corps and National Park Service architect Lyle Bennett redesigned it in Pueblo Revival style in the 1930s. Later the Fred Harvey Company ran it, and Mary Colter and Hopi artist Fred Kabotie added touches including murals. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and remains open year-round with shorter hours than the rest of the park.

#historic inn
#Pueblo Revival architecture
#Route 66
#Civilian Conservation Corps
#Fred Harvey Company

What's around here?

The closest stops to Painted Desert Inn, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.

Sports & Outdoors
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Petrified Forest National Park
$25–$50
Drive 28 miles past Painted Desert badlands and walk among fossil logs from the Late Triassic.
1.3 mi awaySwitch it up: Sports & Outdoors
Museums
Rainbow Forest Museum
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Historic 1931 National Park Service building at the heart of Rainbow Forest in Petrified Forest National Park.
19 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
Sightseeing
Agate House Pueblo
Under $25
A partly rebuilt eight-room Ancestral Puebloan dwelling in Petrified Forest National Park, constructed largely from petrified wood.
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Sightseeing
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
No admission fee
A working trading post on the Navajo Nation, operating since 1878, with a historic family home, farm, and visitor center.
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Sightseeing
Homolovi State Park
Under $25
An Arizona state park just north of Winslow that protects hundreds of ancestral Hopi and Puebloan archaeological sites.
48 mi awayMore like this
Attractions
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Meteor Crater
$25–$50
A 50,000-year-old, nearly mile-wide meteorite impact crater near Winslow with rim tours and a space museum.
51 mi awaySwitch it up: Attractions