Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

The sun sets on (from left) West and East Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte in Monument Valley, Arizona

West Mitten Butte, East Mitten Butte, and Merrick Butte at sunrise

U.S. Route 163 leads toward the buttes of Monument Valley in Utah, near the Utah-Arizona border

Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in Monument Valley

A hazy sky, filled with smoke from a wildfire

Monument Valley, as viewed from Hunts Mesa, near the Utah-Arizona border

Horses graze in Utah with features of Monument Valley in the background.

Totem Pole Rock stands in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park at sunrise

Storm clouds rise behind Merrick Butte.

An unusually wintry landscape

The light of a sunrise, filtered through a dust storm

The view from Hunts Mesa at sunrise

A photo taken from a small airplane flying toward Monument Valley 

The sun sets on East Mitten Butte

Merrick Butte, lit by a sunset as a desert storm passes 

Sunset under a dramatic sky in Monument Valley, as seen from Arizona

An aerial view of one of the buttes, as seen during a balloon trip

An aerial view of some of the natural features of the valley, as seen from a balloon

Ear of the Wind, a rock formation inside Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park 

A snow-covered field, photographed near one of the buttes of Monument Valley