Monument Valley
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
- Where
- Kayenta, Arizona, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 36.9833, -110.1000
Get the Monument Valley stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Monument Valley. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Arizona volume with your photos and a note.
Near Monument Valley
Antelope Canyon 114 km
A slot canyon on Navajo land near Page, its narrow passages carved by water through sandstone that glows orange and purple when sunlight slants in. It has several sections, chiefly the Upper and Lower canyons, and is visited with Navajo guides.
Horseshoe Bend 126 km
A horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River near Page, where the river loops right around a tall sandstone outcrop. From the overlook on the rim it is a sheer drop of about 300 metres to the green water.
Canyonlands National Park 135 km
A maze of canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Colorado and Green rivers and their tributaries in southeastern Utah. The park was created in 1964, and its overlooks look down on layer after layer of coloured rock worn away by the two rivers.
Mesa Verde National Park 146 km
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
Bryce Canyon National Park 197 km
Not a canyon at all but a row of huge natural amphitheatres cut into the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. They are crowded with hoodoos, thin spires of red, orange and white rock shaped by frost and water, seen from a rim between about 2,400 and 2,700 metres up.
Arches National Park 200 km
More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches stand in this park just north of Moab, the densest collection of them anywhere on Earth. The best known is Delicate Arch, and the fins, spires and balanced rocks around it owe their shapes to a buried bed of salt shifting beneath the desert.
Grand Canyon National Park 208 km
The national park around the Grand Canyon, the gorge cut by the Colorado River through northern Arizona and often counted among the wonders of the world. From the South Rim, bands of red and buff rock drop well over a kilometre and a half to the river below.
Petrified Forest National Park 212 km
A national park in northeastern Arizona named for its large deposits of petrified wood, ancient logs turned to stone in shades of red, yellow and purple. It also takes in colourful eroded badlands of the Painted Desert, and old Route 66 crosses it.
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Questions
Where is Monument Valley?
Monument Valley is in Kayenta, Arizona, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Antelope Canyon (114 km), Horseshoe Bend (126 km), Canyonlands National Park (135 km).
How do I get the Monument Valley stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Monument Valley and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Arizona volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Monument Valley before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Arizona volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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