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View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
Stagecoach is situated 4.4 miles (7.1 km) north-northeast of the Monument Valley Tribal Park Visitor Center, on Navajo Nation land. It is an iconic landform of Monument Valley and can be seen from Highway 163. Precipitation runoff from this landform's slopes drains into the San Juan River drainage basin. [2]
Monument Valley appears along US Route 160 in the 18 Wheels of Steel series. The video game Monument Valley for Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, is a puzzle game with several references to the actual valley. Monument Valley appears as a secret base for S.T.E.A.M. in the Nintendo 3DS game Code Name: S.T.E.A.M..
Stagecoach was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot in Monument Valley, on the Arizona–Utah border in the American Southwest. Some scenes blended shots of Monument Valley with those filmed on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, RKO Encino Ranch, and elsewhere, and as a result geographic incongruities appear.
Sentinel Mesa is a 6,450-foot-elevation (1,966-meter) summit in San Juan County, Utah, United States. [1] It is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the Monument Valley visitor center on Navajo Nation land and can be seen from Highway 163.
Sites on the road include archaeological sites at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, the Navajo Nation Museum, and the Navajo Code Talker Monument. [3] Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road: 27.7 miles: The scenic byway, along U.S. Route 163, passes by "unmissable monoliths" of Monument Valley, like Totem Pole, Three Sisters, and Merrick Butte. [3]
Businesses in Monument Valley asked the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) to request extensions of US 163 and US 666 using this new road. [18] The proposal would have US 163 run from Cedar City to US 160 near Cortez, Colorado along the routes of State Route 14 , U.S. Route 89 , Arizona State Route 98 , U.S. Route 160 , the current US 163 ...
Hunts Mesa is a rock formation located in Monument Valley, south of the border between Utah and Arizona in the United States and west of the border between Arizona's Navajo County and Apache County. It is one of two popular interior destinations in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park for tourists to experience panoramic views of the popular ...