Visit Monument Valley Tribal Park Park
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Nearby Communities; Bluff Nearby Attractions; Arches National Park
Guided Tours
Toney's Monument Valley Tours Black's Hiking Tour Black's Jeep Roland's Navajoland Tours Fax Keya-Hozhoni Tours Daniel's Guided Tours Sacred Mountain Tours
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Plan your next vacation to include the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. You will experience first hand one of the most majestic - and most photographed places on earth!
This great valley is home to sandstone masterpieces that tower at heights of 400 to 1,000 feet. Framed by scenic clouds casting shadows that roam the desert floor these great monolithic sandstone giants will awe and inspire. A visit to Monument Valley reveals these graceful formations, providing scenery that is simply spellbinding.
The landscape overwhelms, not just by its beauty but also by its size. The fragile pinnacles of rock are surrounded by miles of mesas and buttes, shrubs, trees and windblown sand, all comprising the magnificent colors of the valley. All of this harmoniously combines to make Monument Valley a truly wondrous experience. Enjoy this beautiful land. HISTORY Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting in to and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today. From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who will take you down into the valley in jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Goulding
Approach
The Navajo Tribal Park Valley Drive Mexican Hat,
The Valley of
the Gods - more of the same landscape of stark red rock formations Accommodations
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GENERAL INFORMATION Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park Scenic
Drive Hours Entry Fees **National Parks and Golden Eagle Passes are not accepted. Contact Info The office listed above is located in the Monument Valley visitor center at Monument Valley, Arizona. Information and permits can be obtained for Rainbow Bridge trails, the San Juan River and the Oljato area. Navajo Parks & Recreation Department Other National
Parks in the area;Arches Other Places
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Monument
Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of
the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by
empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times
over the years for movies, adverts and holiday brochures. Because
of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit,
but it is soon evident that the natural colours really are as bright
and deep as those in all the pictures. The valley is not a valley
in the conventional sense, but rather a wide flat, sometimes desolate
landscape, interrupted by the crumbling formations rising hundreds
of feet into the air, the last remnants of the sandstone layers that
once covered the entire region.