Home Counties Navajo County 54 attractions
1 Score 72.0 out of 100 72.0
Natural Landmark
A cluster of sandstone buttes on the Navajo Nation, the largest rising 1,000 feet above the valley floor.
2 Score 61.7 out of 100 61.7
Natural Landmark
A badlands region running from the Grand Canyon to Petrified Forest, known for the colour of its rock.
3 Score 54.1 out of 100 54.1
Landmark
A park in Winslow, opened in 1999, commemorating the Eagles song "Take It Easy" with a mural, a flatbed Ford and a bronze statue.
4 Score 52.6 out of 100 52.6
Natural Landmark
Two buttes in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, rising above 6,100 feet and named for their resemblance to a pair of mittens.
5 Score 50.8 out of 100 50.8
Historic Site
A National Historic Landmark on the Hopi Reservation holding a pueblo about 500 years old and a 17th-century Spanish mission.
6 Score 50.7 out of 100 50.7
Landmark
A steel Warren pony truss bridge south-east of Winslow, among the first built by Arizona after statehood and listed in 1983.
7 Score 49.5 out of 100 49.5
Natural Landmark
An upland mesa in Navajo and Apache counties, named for the dark appearance of its pinyon-juniper and mixed conifer woodlands.
8 Score 48.1 out of 100 48.1
National Monument
A National Park System unit on the Shonto Plateau preserving three Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings.
9 Score 47.6 out of 100 47.6
Natural Landmark
A 6,547-foot sandstone summit on Navajo Nation land north of Kayenta, held sacred as a spindle left by the Holy People.
10 Score 47.0 out of 100 47.0
Natural Landmark
An eroded volcanic plug rising more than 1,500 feet south of Monument Valley, held sacred by the Navajo and visible from U.S. Route 163.
11 Score 47.0 out of 100 47.0
Natural Landmark
A slender rock spire in Monument Valley, the eroded remnant of a butte, standing beside the spires the Navajo call Yei Bi Chei.
12 Score 46.9 out of 100 46.9
Natural Landmark
A 6,370-foot mesa at the south-eastern edge of Monument Valley, reached only with a Navajo guide by way of the dunes near Kayenta.
13 Score 46.3 out of 100 46.3
Landmark
One of three surviving Wigwam Villages motels, with tipi-shaped rooms on Route 66 in Holbrook, listed on the National Register in 2002.
14 Score 44.8 out of 100 44.8
Natural Landmark
A butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, south of the Mitten Buttes and named for the miner Jack Merrick.
15 Score 41.0 out of 100 41.0
Historic Site
A 288-acre White Mountain Apache tribal park at the former Fort Apache, later a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school.
16 Score 40.8 out of 100 40.8
State Park
A 150-acre lake at Show Low run by Arizona State Parks, averaging 23 feet deep and holding several fish species.
17 Score 40.4 out of 100 40.4
Natural Landmark
A 116-acre man-made lake near Pinetop-Lakeside, created in 1903 when settlers dammed Walnut Creek for irrigation.
18 Score 37.3 out of 100 37.3
Historic Site
An eight-room Puebloan pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park, built of petrified wood and occupied from about 900 to 1200.
19 Score 34.6 out of 100 34.6
Landmark
A street in the Old Downtown district of Holbrook, off former U.S. Route 66 and a block south of the 1882 Santa Fe Railroad station.
20 Score 33.5 out of 100 33.5
Natural Landmark
A 6,586-foot summit in Navajo County, named after a miner who died working the area alongside a partner named Merrick.
21 Score 31.6 out of 100 31.6
Natural Landmark
A 5,847-foot Monument Valley summit near John Ford's Point, with dirt roads passing it on three sides.
22 Score 31.6 out of 100 31.6
Natural Landmark
Cly Butte is a summit in Navajo County, Arizona, within Monument Valley, at an elevation of 5,820 feet.
23 Score 31.6 out of 100 31.6
Natural Landmark
A 5,981-foot Monument Valley butte, appearing as the largest formation visible north-east of John Ford's Point.
24 Score 31.2 out of 100 31.2
State Park
An Arizona state park north of Winslow preserving more than 300 Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites.
25 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
A Monument Valley ruin and petroglyph site on a canyon edge, fenced since 2018 to better protect it, unusually sited on the ground.
26 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
Ruins in southern Monument Valley thought to be the largest and most intact in the valley, set in a wide, shallow rock cave.
27 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Monument Valley viewpoint looking north across the valley toward the Mitten Buttes and other rock formations.
28 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Monument Valley rock arch named for its hogan-like shape, once a Navajo gathering place valued for its musical echo.
29 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
Brigham City ghost town, in Winslow, Arizona.
30 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A small, square-shaped rock formation in eastern Monument Valley, visible north-east of Yei Bi Chei Point near the Sand Springs overlook.
31 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Ear of the Wind is a rock arch in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, standing directly beside a sand dune.
32 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Monument Valley butte north of Sleeping Dragon Butte and west of Yei Bi Chei, with a canyon cutting into its south-western side.
33 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Giant Logs Trail, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
34 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Hidden Bridge Arch is a rock formation in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, south of the formations known as Big Hogan and Sun's Eye.
35 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Monument Valley overlook featured in several Western films, more developed than most of the park despite its rough dirt-road access.
36 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
John Wayne's Point, a Monument Valley overlook named for the actor, lies near Lookout Point but faces east-southeast rather than its direction.
37 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Navajo County park near Winslow with Painted Desert views considered best in early morning and late afternoon light.
38 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Long Logs Trail, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
39 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
A Winslow-area reservoir park, in Navajo County, Arizona, with a petroglyph-lined canyon that is reachable only by canoe.
40 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
North Window Overlook, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, looks onto the North Window rock formation and the desert beyond it.
41 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Historic Site
Rock Art Ranch House and Museum, near Winslow, Arizona, preserves more than 3,000 petroglyphs spanning 6,000 years on a working cattle ranch.
42 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Sand Springs is a natural spring in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, situated close to a nearby sand dune within the valley.
43 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Sleeping Dragon Butte, in Monument Valley, Arizona, resembles a dragon from the north and lies near traditional Navajo hogans and Flying Eagle.
44 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Spearhead Mesa, in Monument Valley, Arizona, rises to 5,998 feet and marks the north-eastern boundary of the Eastern Monument Valley formations.
45 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Sun's Eye, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, is a rock arch visible from a rock formation beneath it.
46 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
The Hub, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, is a two-step butte with a narrower butte set atop a larger one.
47 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Three Sisters Spires, in Monument Valley, Arizona, is a group of three spires best seen from John Ford Point, one topped by a resting rock.
48 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Thumb Spire, in Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona, stands next to Camel Butte with several large rocks beside it.
49 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Point, in Monument Valley, Arizona, overlooks the Sand Springs region and, ringed by rock formations, looks upward rather than down.
50 Score 25.5 out of 100 25.5
Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Spires, in Monument Valley, Arizona, form a crescent beside Totem Pole Spire and, from the south, resemble dancers of their Navajo namesake.
51 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
A Kayenta exhibit, in a building behind a Burger King, on how Navajo code talkers secured US military communications in the Second World War.
52 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Self-guided tours. Contact the Holbrook Visitor's Center (nextdoor) for a brochure.
53 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Old Trails Museum, in Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, is a small museum devoted to the history of the Winslow area.
54 Score 24.2 out of 100 24.2
Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, exhibits petrified wood, fossils, and the park orientation film Timeless Impressions.