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Painted Hills
The Painted Hills are one of the three units of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon. Their bands of red, gold, black, and gray record changing environmental conditions in ancient floodplain deposits, with the visible colors produced by different minerals and degrees of soil deve...
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The top alternative to Painted Hills in 2026 is Little Missouri Badlands with a score of 8.5/10, followed by John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (8.5) and Palo Duro Canyon (8.4).
Little Missouri Badlands
The Little Missouri Badlands are an eroded landscape surrounding the Little Missouri River in western North Dakota. Laye...
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a protected area in eastern Oregon preserving an extensive record of Cenozoic...
Palo Duro Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon is an extensive canyon system in the Texas Panhandle, southeast of Amarillo, carved primarily by the Pr...
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a 377,000-acre federal monument in north-central Montana established by...
Colorado National Monument
Colorado National Monument is a protected landscape established in 1911 near Grand Junction and Fruita in western Colora...
Cerro de los Siete Colores
Cerro de los Siete Colores, or Hill of Seven Colors, is a multicolored hill beside Purmamarca in Argentina's Jujuy Provi...
Quebrada de Cafayate (Quebrada de las Conchas)
Quebrada de las Conchas, also called Quebrada de Cafayate, is a gorge in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. Water...
Hormuz Island
Hormuz Island is an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. It is distinguished b...
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument is a 8,198-acre monument in southwestern Wyoming established in 1972, preserving one of t...
Bentonite Hills
The Bentonite Hills are rounded, banded badlands in south-central Utah, particularly associated with the landscape east...
Valley of the Gods
Valley of the Gods is a landscape of isolated sandstone buttes, towers, and mesas in San Juan County, southeastern Utah....
Carrizo Badlands (Anza-Borrego)
The Carrizo Badlands are an expanse of deeply eroded sedimentary terrain in and around the southern portion of Anza-Borr...
Caprock Canyons State Park
Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park in Briscoe County, where erosion has exposed multicolored...
Wahweap Badlands
The Wahweap Badlands are an eroded landscape in southern Utah near the community of Big Water and the Grand Staircase-Es...
Factory Butte
Factory Butte is an isolated landform near Caineville in Wayne County, Utah, rising above broad badland flats shaped lar...
Caineville Badlands
The Caineville Badlands are an area of heavily eroded sedimentary terrain near Caineville in south-central Utah, east of...
Missouri Breaks
Missouri Breaks is a remote stretch of eroded bluffs and coulees along the upper Missouri River in Montana, designated a...
Tsagaan Suvarga
Tsagaan Suvarga, whose Mongolian name means "White Stupa," is an eroded escarpment in Dundgovi Province in southern Mong...
Breakaways Conservation Park
Breakaways Conservation Park is a protected arid landscape near Coober Pedy in northern South Australia. Its scenery con...
Painted Desert (South Australia)
The Painted Desert is an arid landscape in the far north of South Australia, near Oodnadatta and within the wider outbac...
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