Exotic Car Rentals and Monument Valley

Pack your camera in your Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicle when you head out to Monument Valley. Here, you’ll discover an area of freestanding sandstone rock formations that are based in the desert. These formations that stand up to 1,000 feet tall can be seen in many Western movies and television commercials.

Some memorable movie sites that were shot in Monument Valley including movies made by John Ford, John Wayne and many others. Some notable movies are “The Searchers,” “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” and others were made. Here are some other movies filmed with Monument Valley as a backdrop:

• Kit Carson-1940
• Billy the Kid-1941
• My Darling Clementine-1946
• Fort Apache-1948
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon-1949
• The Searchers-1956
• How the West Was Won-1962
• Mackenna's Gold-1969
• The Trial of Billy Jack-1974
• The Eiger Sanction-1975
• The Legend of the Lone Ranger-1981
• Back to the Future II and III-1983/91
• Forrest Gump-1993
• Tall Tales-1993
• Lightning Jack-1994
• Waiting to Exhale-1995

You’ll want to take a Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicle to travel the 2,000 square miles that is part of the Navajo Indian Reservation. The Navajos have occupied the valley since the 1860s.

Drive your Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicle to the Utah/Arizona border towards the southeast corner of Utah to find these majestic formations. Monument Valley is east of Hwy 163 about 22 miles southwest of Mexican Hat, Utah and 24 miles north of Kayenta, Arizona.

Be sure to have a full tank of fuel in your Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicle because you might want to spend a few hours driving, observing and photographing the amazing landscape.

There’s a bumpy 14-mile loop that provides good views of the valley. In order to see this portion of the valley, you’ll have to join a guided tour.

Guided Tours in Monument Valley

Take your pick of a guided tour in a 4X4 open-air Jeep, Horseback or a Hiking excursion. No matter which type of tour you choose, you’ll be able to fully appreciate the naturally-formed geological arches, petroglyph drawings of animals, pieces of pottery crafted by ancient peoples and prehistoric formations in rock for yourself. You’ll be pleased to find a range of Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicles that will suit your traveling needs, whether it’s a day trip or a week-long camping vacation at Goulding’s Campground. It’s located 145 miles west of Mesa Verde National Park.

Geography of Monument Valley

Monument Valley is part of the Colorado Plateau. During the Eocene epoch of the Cenozoic era, huge quantities of rocky mountain sediments were deposited in the part of land that now has Monument Valley. Meanwhile, the Colorado Plateau underwent a regional uplift. Due to the pressure from below pushed the plateau was pushed upward, the plateau broke and cracked, thus creating a new cycle of corrosion. Most of the breaking was done underground long before the rocks were revealed.

When you take a Dream Car Rentals luxury car rentals vehicle to see the various types of rocks in Monument Valley, be sure to bring enough memory and batteries for your digital or video camera to capture the beauty of this locale. The base of the rock is called "Organ Rock Shale" and is made up of soft rock shale. The middle section is made up of "DeChelly Sandstone" and is the hard rock shale. At the top of the rock is called "Shinarump" that is made up of mountain sediments deposited during the Cenzoic era. If you see vertical, smooth and even rocks, you have seen called Joints.