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The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Arizona, ordered by height.. Entries in bold indicate the peak is the highest point in its respective county.. Entries with a † indicate the peak has a low topographic prominence and may be considered a subpeak to a higher nearby summit.
The Trona Pinnacles, at an elevation of 1,800 ft (550 m) above sea level, are located approximately 10.0 mi (16.1 km) south of Trona, California.Access to the site is from a BLM dirt road (RM143) that leaves State Highway 178, about 7.7 mi (12 km) east of the intersection of State Highway 178 and the Trona-Red Mountain Road.
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 ...
The 100.3-mile (161 km) Dine' Tah "Among the People" Scenic Road in Apache County, Arizona, [5] and the 26-mile (42 km) Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road [6] in Navajo County, Arizona. The byways highlight the archaeological and cultural history of southwestern Native American peoples, and traverses the widely diverse geological landscape of ...
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.
Agathla Peak or Agathlan (Navajo: Aghaałą́, Spanish: El Capitan) is a peak south of Monument Valley, Arizona, which rises over 1,500 feet (460 meters) above the surrounding terrain. It is 7 miles (11 km) north of Kayenta and is visible from U.S. Route 163 .
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..
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. [3] It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte . Deserts at the end of the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley .