I’ve written about the region in my story about 7 Iconic U.S. Attractions Kids Should See Before They Grow Up, but I wanted to expand on Navajo National Monument and Navajo and Hopi lands here ...

In late April 2023, representatives from the Center of the American West and the National Park Service traveled to Flagstaff and various sites around the Navajo Nation to meet with indigenous elders ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was designated in 1996 under the Antiquities Act to protect 1.7 million acres in ...

The monument is run and controlled by the Navajo Nation and is one of the most visited monuments in the United States. Canyon ...

It has been two months since Doug Burgum, President Donald Trump’s new secretary of the interior and former governor of North Dakota, ordered his staff to review protected federal lands ...

Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and possibly other tribes pass ... water no matter what time of year you're visiting. The Wupatki National Monument is open daily from sunrise to sunset. You'll find it about ...

One reason is that Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is upstaged by its neighbors ... is derived from prehistoric sand—the Navajo sandstone that forms the plateau and cliffs.

Native American tribes including the Navajo and Hopi have formed a coalition to protect a national monument in southern Utah ...

In 1958, the council voted to set aside 29,817 acres of Monument Valley as the first-ever tribal park, to be run by Navajo on the national park model, and allocated $275,000 to upgrade roads and ...

Located on the border of Utah and Arizona, 285 mi/460 km southeast of Salt Lake City, the stark landscape of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is what most of us imagine the West to look like—gr ...