The Mittens

The Mittens, copyright by Mike Pedroncelli, all rights reserved.

This is the standard view of the Mittens from the Monument Valley visitor's center viewing platform.

The road in the foreground is the beginning of a 17 mile loop road. Lots of John Ford / John Wayne movies were filmed from the road.

It's $10 to enter the visitor's center parking lot and/or take the loop drive. The Navajos aren't big on road maintenance. It's a pretty bumpy road. You can take a "tour" in an open back bus with thin little padding on the seats and a driver who's in a hurry. We didn't do that. It looked insane. We drove ourselves instead.

There were lots of German tourists, a few Japanese, and a smattering of English, French, and Americans.

by Mike Pedroncelli