A few soaring avian species floated above the shimmering lake and white salt ... termed [Carrizo] “Painted Rock” by the anglo settlers. Purple lupine at Carrizo Plain. Credit: Dan McCaslin ...

Starting Wednesday, the public will need a permit to visit Painted Rock in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. The purpose of the new permit is to allow the Bureau of Land Management to educate ...

The rocks sit inside a flat, built-in planter and are a mix of plain, smooth river rocks as well as ones I painted. Because that area is such a high-traffic one for us (our kiddos throw down their ...

From the cavern of Painted Rock, the vast expanse of the Carrizo Plain is exposed. This photo was originally published on April 27, 1991. The Tribune As you leave the vast expanse of the Carrizo ...

A painted rock is like an Easter egg in its ... There, they placed rainbow rocks, hidden in plain sight, on flower bed walls and the colorful seats kids use when the weather is warm enough for ...

the painted-rock hunt is for something more primitive, concrete and reality based. Participants are decorating plain old, garden-variety rocks, most of them the size of a palm, with colorful ...