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.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Petrified Forest National Park
- County
- Apache County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place · National Treasure
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 39.8 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 0.0
- Significance score
- 73.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 35.0683, -109.7806
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District is a historic site near Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 39.8 out of 100, at medium 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
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(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
1.2 miles away
Painted Desert Inn
Painted Desert Inn is a historic complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County, eastern Arizona. It is located off Interstate 40 and near the original alignment of historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert.
6.4 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.7.4 miles away
Newspaper Rock
A roadside overlook leads to an area in which hundreds of petroglyphs have been etched into the rock.