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Painted Rock Dam
The Painted Rock Dam is an earthfill embankment dam located west of Gila Bend, Arizona. It is primarily used for flood control purposes.
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
This archeological site contains hundreds of pre-Columbian petroglyphs and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Picnic tables and vaulted toilets available, primitive camping possible (no water). Most heavily visited from October to April; watch out for rattlesnakes.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Dateland
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 45.4 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 24.2
- Significance score
- 63.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- blm.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.0229, -113.0496
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site is a historic site near Dateland, in Maricopa 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 45.4 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: Wikivoyage(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: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/recreation/camping/dev_camps/painted_rock.html(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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