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In Valley of the Gods the red sandstone of this water- and wind-sculpted high country seems almost to seize sunrises.
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Valley of the Gods
Having made it all the way up the Moki Dugway, the next challenge is to make it back
down—“Easydoesit”isthebestadvice. Atthebottom,instead offollowingRte.261back
to Rtes. 316 and 163, turn east onto a 17-mile rough dirt road that wanders through the
heart of the Valley of the Gods.
Ifnature hadneeded amodel forMonument Valley,theValley oftheGodscouldeasily
have filled the bill. As in so much of this water- and wind-sculpted high country, the val-
ley's medium is red sandstone, a rock that seems almost to seize sunrises. Towers stabbing
sky-ward, rocks balanced precariously on slender pedestals, buttes bearing homespun
names such as Rooster and Sitting Hen—all invest the Valley of the Gods with an eerie
ambience that lingers in the bones long after you've departed.
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