Monument (to tourism) Valley

After leaving Antelope Canyon and heading back to Colorado, I decided to hop back up into Utah and visit Monument Valley. The drive was about as uneventful as one might imagine a drive through Northern Arizona into Utah would be. Thousands and thousands of acres of open fields. I was able to snap up this nice little picture near the side of the road right at about the state border into Utah.

Monument Valley is another member of the Grand Circle, one of many attractions located upon the Colorado Plateau, it features many Sandstone buttes some that reach as tall as 1000 feet. The area was featured in many early westerns including The Searchers as well as more recently Back to the Future III.

Today though the area is crawling with families and there are an overabundance of shops offering guided jeep tours of the area. I can see why this was once an attraction but in many ways it has become worse than the visitor centers of even the Grand Canyon.