Small group · 4 days
3 Parks in 4 Days
Moab → Arches National Park
- Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Monument Valley
- Small group, 2–14
$1,190from / personCustom-priced
Destination
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Scenes of the “Old West” are not complete without including the scenery of Monument Valley. Iconic western movies directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne would not be the same if they were not filmed surrounded by the magical monoliths of Monument Valley.
Since Monument Valley is not one of Utah’s “Mighty 5” national parks, it is often overlooked by people that seek to see all of Utah’s splendor in a week’s time. Look into one of our tours that delves more deeply into other sights to see around the Southwest, such as our Grand Circle Experience tour.
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in photographs
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Self-drive · 10 days
Self-Drive: Best of the Southwest
Las Vegas → Zion National Park
- Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Arches National Park
- Small group, 2–14
Price on requestCustom-priced
Self-drive · 9 days
Self-Drive Tour: Grand Circle
Las Vegas → Zion National Park
- Zion National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Monument Valley
- Small group, 2–14
Price on requestCustom-priced
Rail & cruise · 12 days
Grand Circle Experience: Explore Southwest National Parks
Bryce → Zion National Park
- Zion National Park, Arches National Park, Grand Canyon National Park
- Small group, 2–14
$6,249from / person
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Planning a trip to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Monument Valley is not a national park. It is a Navajo Tribal Park on Navajo Nation land, straddling the Utah–Arizona line, with its own entry fee, its own opening hours and its own rules — and none of the federal park passes are valid here.
The seventeen-mile Valley Drive is unpaved, rough in places, and open to visitors in their own vehicles; everything beyond it is backcountry that can only be entered with an authorised Navajo guide. Taking a guide is also how most of what is worth seeing here gets explained rather than just photographed.
The buttes are what a century of Westerns taught the world the American desert looks like, and they still read that way at sunrise and sunset, which is when the light is across them rather than on top of them.
It is remote. Moab is about two and a half hours north, Page and Antelope Canyon around two hours west, and there is very little between them.