Located on the border of Utah and Arizona, 285 mi/460 km southeast of Salt Lake City, the stark landscape of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is what most of us imagine the West to look like—gr ...

In 1958, the council voted to set aside 29,817 acres of Monument Valley as the first-ever tribal park, to be run by Navajo on the national park model, and allocated $275,000 to upgrade roads and ...