Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Auf Basis unserer mittlerweile erworbenen Erfahrungen beim Besuch von Nationalparks und anderen Sights beschlossen wir, heute zusätzlich vor dem Monument Valley den Antelope Canyon zu besuchen.
Ernüchtert in unserem Entdeckerdrang wurden wir allerdings vom Eintrittspreis - stolze 26 Dollar verlangten die Navajos für gerade mal 400m Canyon! Wir …

Monument Valley is located just over the border from Arizona, in the state of Utah. It is about a 4 hour drive from Williams to the border, and the road is very flat for most of the trip. As designated driver (the one over 25) I got to stare at the stretch of never ending road, while Simon got to snooze. The landscape across Arizona is one of …

We awoke from a more comfortable sleep due to being on sand rather than rock and packed up our camp for the penultimate time. Then we set out for Antelope Canyon, stopping for pictures of the lake and the Glen Canyon Dam and Bridge along the way. As we were a bit early we decided to pull into Denny's for breakfast and I ordered the Ultimate Sizzler …

It was a short (150 miles) hop from Moab to Monument Valley. We drove through a lot more desert to get there, stopping off for pictures at the Mexican Hat and hwy 163, aka "Forrest Gump road", where said character finally stopped his running around the USA in the film. It made for fun moments as we had to time our pictures in between cars passing …

The most comfortable and warm camping night so far, sand is the way forward. We got up early, had an apple for breakfast and sorted out our clothes for the day. We then took down the tent and headed over to the shower block. We thought all of the showers were in use it just turned out to be that Claire was weak and didn’t push the door …

Day 16 Cortez - Four Corners - Monument Valley

We headed off this morning to Monument Valley, via a big trip to Walmart (where I lost Rupert and the kids - its that big!) and via Four Corners National Park. We decided to stop at Four Corners as it was almost on the way to Monument and we thought it would be quite fun to be standing on the …

Travelled about 413 km.

For a change a long journey again! ,( But never mind it was worth it!!
The landscape did change again. of course more mountains,.. so it was a bit more to from the car window then just a straight road with a bit gras or snow. ,) And its getting a bit warmer!! Yeah!! ,) So no more snowball fight! ,(

On …

Visite du parc et randonnée autour du Monument de 5,6 kms.
C'est un lieu où les Western les plus connus ont été tournés …

... the minus temperatures (in the summer there are stalls everywhere you look selling arts and crafts). We finally arrived in Monument Valley, also in the Navajo Tribal Park, as the sun was setting. From the lodge we were staying at, we could see the rock ...

Tuesday 7 October - Cowboy Country Monument Valley We stayed in a famous lodge called "Goulding's" on the Navajo Reservation. Our room had a wonderful view of the sun setting over the Monument Valley "buttes" as we sipped our Southern Comforts on ...

... we saw these extraordinary flaming red buttes and slender spires bursting into the landscape that was our next destination - Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.  We are staying in Goulding's Lodge (in Utah side of park) and it seems like Goulding ...

... caused by high concentrations of oxidized iron in the rock and soil. Many of the rock formations throughout Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park have been given creative names. Mittens Butte resembles a pair of mittens with the thumbs facing toward each ...

... nbsp; Rain clouds increased as we approached, and we arrived to find the primitive campground (no parking spots even) at the Navajo Tribal Park.  With tent set up we explored the afternoon views and Todd took a series of sunset pics of the "Mittens" ...

We finished the south and north canyon rim tours and then drove from Canyon De Chelly National Monument to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.  It was a short hour and a half drive.   Canyon De Chelly has an amazing number of unique views of ...

... Tribal Park og har den flotteste udsigt til Monument Valley. I går eftermiddags tog vi en 3½ timers guided bustur ind i Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park; en fantastisk flot (men meget støvet!!) tur, hvor vi fik set en stor del af området. Vores ...

Monument Valley (MV) is a Navajo Tribal Park and is located just north of the Utah/Arizona border. The Navajo Nation Indian Reservation covers a huge area from "Mexican Hat" in Utah 150 miles south to Winslow in Arizona. Therefore, Monument Valley is ...

... a treaty which granted their tribe the land they now occupy as the Navajo Indian Nation.  Monument Valley is preserved by the Navajo tribe as a Navajo Tribal Park.  Navajo people still live on the land and you can see their homesteads while on ...

Visite du parc et randonnée autour du Monument de 5,6  kms. C'est un lieu où les Western les plus connus ont été ...