Stay Inside Monument Valley Tribal Park
The View Hotel in Monument Valley along the Arizona-Utah border has some of the best views of the desert Southwest you will ever see. The hotel is on Navajo land in Monument Valley Tribal Park. As the Seattle Times reports, The View opened last December and is the only lodging inside the tribal park. It is run by the Ortega family, Navajos who built The View Hotel and pay a guest tax to the tribe.
Monument Valley gets less traffic than the Grand Canyon (around 300,000 visitors a year versus the millions that visit the Grand Canyon) but it has its own dazzling natural landscape that includes buttes and canyons. The View Hotel has great views of the Mittens, tall rock formations that you've likely seen as the backdrop in many movies and commercials. And then there is the night sky. The guestrooms on the third floor of the hotel are the StarView rooms which provide the best stargazing vistas. The array of stars to be seen on a clear desert night with little ambient light around to cloud the view is simply amazing. Rooms each have a flatscreen television, refrigerator, microwave and a balcony and cost around $200 a night.
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perry stirling Apr 1st 2009 6:17AM
what is e-mail address for the view hotel,monument valley,utah? thx.