When you want visit Monument Valley Located right on the border between the States of Arizona y Utah, a common route is to head by road from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
That was at least my case on the trip I took through the west coast of united states.
In fact, we had not planned to visit this natural park in our initial travel plan.
But when we realized that the Monument Valley It is located 290 kilometers away from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, about three and a half hours of travel, we could not resist seeing the landscapes that have become world famous in the Western films.
And it really was totally worth it; she was one of the Top visits of our long journey through the American West.
All the information in detail
How to go to Monument Valley from the Grand Canyon
to direct you from the Grand Canyon National Park at Monument Valley, you have to exit from the east side of said national park.
Specifically, in the area known as desert view, where the emulation of a Watchtower of the Anasazi Indians.
For the 64 route you will go down bordering the Colorado River, but due to the arid and desert landscape typical of the Navajo Indian Reservation, which is where the Monument Valley.
After traveling a section of the 89 route, you will soon deviate through the 160 route to Tuba City, place where you will find a typical tourist bus stop with a great store of remembrances with Navajo Indian crafts.
From there you will reach Kayenta, one of the places that you have to take into account when looking for accommodation, and from where you will go along the 163 route towards Utah and Monument Valley.
This impressive natural setting is not included among the national parks of the United States, but it is the main one of the Navajo Indian Nation Parks, among which is also the Lake Powell and Antelope Canyon.
It will be easy for you to realize that you are going arriving at Monument Valley because the flat and desert landscape of the Navajo reservation It will show you some of the mountain platforms similar to those that characterize said park.
El access to Monument Valley you will find it 13 kilometers after having entered the State of Utah.
Although the narrow road will take you south again, entering again into Arizona, once you pass the control booth, very soon you will reach the Visitors Center, building where the Hotel The View.
Driving distances to Monument Valley
For your information, below you have detailed information about the distance to Monument Valley from Las Vegas and other national parks in Utah and Arizona.
- from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado to Monument Valley, 290 kilometers, 3 and a half hours.
- from Arches National Park to Monument Valley, 234 kilometers, 2 hours 50 minutes
- from Zion National Park to Monument Valley, 390 kilometers, 5 and a quarter hours.
- from Glen Canyon National Park to Monument Valley, 185 kilometers, 4 hours
- from Bryce Canyon National Park to Monument Valley, 446 kilometers, 6 hours
- from Death Valley National Park to Monument Valley, 900 kilometers, 10 hours.
- from Las Vegas to Monument Valley, 700 kilometers, 7 and a half hours.
I think the description of the routes is spectacular, it allows you to appreciate the historical sites of the United States, as well as making the route easier when you go with your family.
Hello brothers: I am Argentine, I am going through a very difficult time in my country, a Navajo visitor has come to a convention and I was very impressed with the lifestyle, so in line with the tradition of the ancestors. I am willing to work hard to be able to leave this country, where they are killing the indigenous people in the north and in the south.
Thank you
These landscapes are very beautiful and it is good that the Native Americans preserve them like their ancestors because if the white man had them he would have already destroyed them, irony