Canyon De Chelly

Incredibly beautiful! The Grand Canyon has nothing on the beauty and history of Canyon de Chelly. This really is a must-see for geology lover, history nuts, and just regular tourists, alike. Fantastic colors, entire civilizations build into the canyon walls, the place is simply amazing.

Travel tip: visit during the fall/winter months. There aren’t as many other tourists and the colors really stand out if there is snow on the ground. Also, The heat is unbelievable in the summer.

This place has it all – incredible scenery, ancient ruins and current day Navajo. It has left a yearning in me… Can’t wait to go back and spend a few days in the canyon itself, and hopefully see a special dog friend again in the Cottonwood Campground.

went here as part of high school church choir trip. AWESOME place to visit. Will never forget the beautiful colors, trickling streams and amazing cliff dwellings.

My family visited here in Aug. 1991. We rented campers in Salt Lake City and toured the four corners areas, which is a highly recommenable way to see this unique and quietly beautiful part of our country. We stayed in quite a few campgrounds, but to me none to compare to Canyon De Chelly. We stayed at a campground on the reservation which most of this area is. It was run by a very nice Native man who had a heated outdoor shower which added to the ambiance and flavor of this wild and natural area. We walked the trail to the canyon view and were treated to the breath-taking landscape which I thought was more beautiful than the very commercial and crowded Grand Canyon. The rocks and cliffs have such force and personality with an array of colors that would keep and artist happy forever. It was a very spiritual and reverent place where you could really admire nature in all it’s glory.

shoot… smile I went back home for the central fair :)
and my brothers and I had a cookout back home… everytime I go
home I feel so much better. Tse’yi’ the true heart of the Navajo Reservation Chinle and the Tse’yi’

I say walk it and enjoy it and bring water lol and a lot of film there are just way too many cool things to see in the canyon. just writing this makes me miss it so…

on the same summer Mammoth trip with parents and sister.
This is an area that deserves revisitng now that I am an adult.

Spend an entire week or more in Arizona and never get bored.

Fun trip up the river in an old army truck.

I feel that this is so much better than the Grand Canyon. The beauty if more breathtaking and it feels more “personal” whatever that means. I was impressed.

2nd in ‘70, 3rd with the first wife in ‘90, last time in a Uhaul coming back from Portland Oregon with the 2nd wife in ‘03.