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Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of theAmerican West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years and were the locations for many western movies and television shows including the westerns directed by the legendary John Ford . Because of this the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit. You may have seen photographs that appear oversaturated but it is soon evident upon visiting the area that the natural colours really are as bright and deep as those in all the pictures.

Monument Valley isn't actually a valley but rather a wide flat landscape, interrupted by randomly placed towering formations rising hundreds of feet into the air, the last remnants of the sandstone layers that once covered the entire region.