Monument Valley

This stunningly vast, indelible landscape lies within Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which was established in 1958 by the Navajo Tribal Council. At 92,000 acres, it’s larger in size than Utah’s Arches National Park!

Monument Valley was once a basin that was uplifted and became a plateau, then water and wind eroded less resistant sedimentary rock over eons. Today, sculpted and more resistant sandstone formations soar from 400 to 1000 feet above the valley.

Long home to the Navajo and other Native Americans, the region became more widely known to the larger world through Hollywood films, especially once the 1939 black and white John Ford movie “Stagecoach” premiered featuring John Wayne.