Puerco River
Bisecting the park with an east/west flow, the 167-mile-long Puerco River is the main tributary of the Little Colorado River.
Plan Around Puerco River
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Puerco River Details
Bisecting the park with an east/west flow, the 167-mile-long Puerco River is the main tributary of the Little Colorado River. For most of the year, the river is a braided wash containing little or no water, although during the spring and early summer the Puerco often contains water. The river runs parallel to the south of I-40 inside much of the park; near the intersection of the river, Ninemile Wash, and Dead Wash is the Puerco Pueblo archeological site.
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Puerco River
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0.1 mi away
Puerco Pueblo Trail
Visitors to the Puerco Pueblo archaeological site must visit via the 0.3-mile, wheelchair accessible Puerco Pueblo trail.
0.2 mi away
Puerco Pueblo
Puerco Pueblo is a 100-plus room pueblo site located near the Puerco River.
0.4 mi away
Dead Wash
Dead Wash connects with the Puerco River just north of the Puerco Pueblo archaeological site.
0.5 mi away
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
Originally serving as a thoroughfare for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the train tracks running through Petrified Forest National Park now service the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
0.5 mi away
Ninemile Wash
East of the Puerco Pueblo archaeologic site, the usually dry Ninemile Wash flows east/west.
