Kayenta

Worth the detour from Kayenta

4 notable places within an hour's drive.

Driving roads near Kayenta

• 31 kmMonument Valley ViewpointThe classic mitten buttes vista from the tribal park entrance, an image seared into popular culture through countless Western films.
• 48 kmForrest Gump Point (Monument Valley)The spot on US-163 where Forrest Gump stopped running, with the highway stretching ruler-straight toward Monument Valley's buttes.
• 58 kmGoosenecks State ParkAn overlook where the San Juan River winds through 1,000-foot-deep entrenched meanders, travelling six miles to advance one. A three-mile paved spur off UT-261 leads to the rim.
• 61 kmMuley PointAn unfenced clifftop 1,000 feet above the Goosenecks of the San Juan River, reached by a dirt spur at the top of the Moki Dugway. The view stretches to Monument Valley and there is rarely another car.
• 67 kmMoki DugwayA gravel staircase of switchbacks carved into the face of Cedar Mesa, dropping 1,200 feet in three miles on UT-261 with jaw-dropping views over the Valley of the Gods.
• 69 kmValley of the GodsA 17-mile dirt-and-gravel loop through isolated sandstone buttes and spires that locals call a miniature Monument Valley, with almost none of the crowds. Free BLM land, passable in dry weather in a normal car.

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