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| Above, the Three Sisters. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
If the name Monument Valley isn't familiar to people, then they will likely be familiar with the terrain from the movies.
Monument Valley is a Navajo tribal park situated at the Arizona-Utah border. It has been featured in numerous movies from Stagecoach to Forest Gump. Strangely enough, it was also featured in a scene in Godzilla Final Wars.
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| Above, Totem Pole was featured in Clint Eastwood's The Eiger Sanction. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
NationalTurk has posted some tips for visiting Monument Valley.
They begin with:
Monument Valley Tribal Park, on the Utah-Arizona border, is a landscape that looks like it was immortalized by artists.
There, whimsical red rock formations rise out of the desert sand and immediately stimulate the imagination.
The butte and mesas have a variety of shapes and have names like Three Sisters, Totem Pole, Elephant Butte, Camel Butte, and West Mitten Butte (“mitten” means mitten). Some recognize completely different figures in the bizarre rocks, which are at a safe distance from each other.
The landscape (which is not a national park but is under similar protection) owes its unusual shape primarily to the climate. The temperatures vary between minus three degrees in winter and plus 30 degrees in summer, plus wind and drought, which gradually shaped the sandstone. Over the course of millions of years, table mountains (“mesa”) up to 300 meters high such as the Thunderbird, Sentinel, Raingood Mesa and the bizarre buttes were formed.
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| Above, Left Mitten and Right Mitten at dusk. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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