2.9 miles away
Newspaper Rock
A roadside overlook leads to an area in which hundreds of petroglyphs have been etched into the rock.
Blue Mesa
Blue Mesa, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Petrified Forest National Park
- County
- Apache County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 25.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 34.9394, -109.7563
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Blue Mesa is a natural landmark near Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 25.5 out of 100, at low confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
3.3 miles away
Puerco Pueblo
A short trail leads around an 800-year-old pueblo that once contained 100 rooms and housed as many as 1200 people.3.9 miles away
Agate Bridge
This bridge was created as softer rocks eroded around a large petrified log, leaving a lengthy bridge between bluffs. The early park service built several stone supports to keep the bridge from collapsing, greatly diminishing the beauty of this natural wonder.4.4 miles away
Jasper Forest
A roadside turnout overlooks hundreds of logs that have been deposited amongst badlands through the erosion of the surrounding rocky bluffs.
9.0 miles away
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District
The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work on the community began in 1961 and was completed by 1965.