Arizona - Navajo & Hopi Islands (Chapter)

This is the Navajo & Hopi Islands chapter from Lonely Planet's Arizona guidebook.

The high desert scenery of Arizona's northeastern corner is raw and otherworldly yet surprisingly familiar, thanks to its frequent use as a backdrop in movies and TV; Navajo and Hopi cultural traditions make this a particularly unique American destination.

• visit beautiful and mysterious Canyon de Chelly National Monument, a sacred footprint of a vanished people - the Ancestral Puebloans - and a living monument to the trials and survival of the Navajo Nation
• maps
• get your John Wayne on at Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park where staggering crimson buttes stir the soul no matter how many times you've seen them on screen
• transportation
• join the thousands who descend upon Window Rock in early September to eat, dance and watch bronco riders at the Navajo Nation Fair
• restaurants & accommodations

Coverage includes: Navajo Reservation, Cameron, Tuba City & Moenkopi, Antelope Canyon, Navajo National Monument, Kayenta, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Four Corners Navajo Tribal Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Ganado & Hubbell Trading Post, Window Rock and Hopi Reservation.