Petrified Forest National Park
by Admin
Posted on 14-09-2023 08:01 AM
The sedona chamber of commerce & tourism bureau visitor center offers first class visitor services. Our visitor center is located at 331 forest road in uptown. We assist more than 300,000 visitors a year, not to mention the thousands of visitor inquiries via phone and email. While in sedona, make sure you visit our uptown visitor center for maps, directions, suggestions or to purchase your red rock pass or annual national park pass. Staff and volunteers will assist visitors every day 8:30 a. M. – 5:00 p. M. Phone: 928. 282. 7722
email: info@sedonachamber. Com
multi-hued stone formations jut upwards from the high desert floor creating a vivid, mesmerizing setting that changes hourly with the light.
This section combines visitor numbers from state and national parks or monuments plus the arizona-sonora desert museum. The visitor statistics are sorted by area of state (northern arizona and southern arizona) as well as by type of park or monument (scenic, historical, or water-based). Northern arizona historical parks include montezuma castle national monument, navajo national monument, pipe spring national monument, tuzigoot national monument, walnut canyon national monument, wupatki national monument, hubbell trading post national historic site, homolovi state park, fort verde state historic park, jerome state historic park, riordan mansion state historic park, and granite mountain hotshots memorial state park.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
“there would be demonstrations of hopi craftwork, hopi cooking,” milowski said. “but you were being shown an idealized version…on these tours. You would have been spared the more negative aspects of essentially the american takeover of the southwest. ”arval mccabe of the navajo nation’s tourism department agreed, and noted native americans were poorly compensated for their participation in indian detours. Native american art and craftwork was also undervalued in curio shops, mccabe said.
“people were often cheated…during the haggling process,” he said in an email. Today, as people visit the navajo nation for its breathtaking sites like monument valley, canyon de chelly and shiprock to name a few, mccabe said his office works to ensure culturally accurate information is disseminated to visitors.
In the northeastern part of the state, about 24 miles northeast of kayenta, monument valley navajo tribal park contains 30,000 acres of massive red sandstone monoliths that have been carved out from centuries of wind and rain. Visitors can drive a scenic 17 mile dirt road that circles throughout monument valley for spectacular views. In addition, the monument valley visitor center offers guided tours of the site as well as a great gift shop with exhibits dedicated to native american history.