Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Monument Valley is located in Northern Arizona, near other famous attractions like The Grand Canyon (which I have also reviewed) and Meteor Crater. It is in the Navajo Nation and they run and own the park; they are the native Indians of this area. *Cost: unfortunatley you cannot use an Annual Parks Pass to enter the Valley however the cost is only $5 per person. At this point you must ensure you have sufficient fuel to complete the 17 mile long drive through the valley or you can use the buses provided at $65 per person for a 2 hour long tour of the park. *What to do there: the visitor centre has few locally made gifts for example, arrow heads and ...  Read the complete review

Avoid the gift shops and try and meet the 'real' Indians - Advantages: breathtaking - Disadvantages: dirty

This is a very worthwhile place to visit if you checking the scenery in Arizon / Utah, but I can't stop thinking about how much better it would be if the Navajo werent there. Now im not saying the Navajo themselves are bad, it just Native American reserves : they can't take care of them at all. They make messes of these beautiful pieces of land that they worked so hard to get back from the government. The indian reservation from corner to corner of the nation are like this, with rusty cars crashed all over the place and rubbish dumps they make in the scenic areas. If only....... But its still worth coming here. You may or may not know it but you ...  Read the complete review

Monument Valley is in the very north of Arizona; driving from places like Phoenix or Flagstaff, you actually sneak into Utah on the main road before turning off back into Arizona. It is a bit remote (driving from Flagstaff took an age), and there isn't much in the way of habitation once you get there. Nevertheless, if you're in the SouthWest USA, and you can get here from anywhere, do it. Monument Valley appears in a lot of John Ford westerns (most notably 'The Searchers'), and is a group of massive rock formations, deep red rocks standing as if carved by giants. Rather like the Grand Canyon, it's not easy to explain precisely what ...  Read the complete review