Carrizo Plain
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The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles long and up to 15 miles across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, about 100 miles northwe
Aerial view of the Carrizo Plain. The San Andreas Fault is on the right.
Superbloom in the Temblor Range, April 2017
Aerial view of the south end of Soda Lake in Carrizo Plain National Monument
Entrance to National Monument
Painted Rock is a smooth horseshoe-shaped marine sandstone rock formation with pictograph rock art about 250 feet across and 45 feet tall near Soda Lake within the Carrizo Plain National Monument on t
Carrizo Plain
…Monument, which also includes most of the Caliente Range. The Carrizo Plain is the largest single native grassland remaining in California. It includes Painted Rock in the Carrizo Plain Rock Art Discontiguous District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2012, it was further designated…
Aerial view of Painted Rock looking south, taken February, 2019.
Pictograph at Painted Rock.
View north to Soda Lake.
Aerial overhead view.