I can’t say Monument Valley was on my bucket list.  Actually, before this trip, I could not recall whether or not I had ever been here before.  When Carol told me that we could stop a little early on Tuesday in Bluff, Utah and that it was convenient to Monument Valley I voted to go for it.

Today, Carol drove us the 45 or so miles to the visitor center at Monument Valley – she drives me around when we are in the Tracker.  The entrance fee is $5 per person and that entitles you to ride around the ’17 mile’ trail in this area.  They recommend that you have a 4-wheel drive vehicle but the weather was great and the road was dry so I’d estimate that 90 percent of the cars were not 4WD.  We even saw a pretty new Mustang Convertible coming out.  Pretty rough though.

I would say that it was worth the drive and it is pretty awesome.  Some of those formations are over 1000 feet above the road.  I took a lot of pictures and usually I would edit them down to just a couple but there were so many I liked and I figured it would be OK if you can look at just the ones you want.