The Totem Pole, a towering rock spire, is found near the end of Monument Valley Tribal Park Drive. It seems fitting that the Navajo Nation's park would have a totem pole. The spire is just one of the many striking rock formations in the valley. Weathering and erosion have created interesting shapes seen in many of the early John Wayne movies.
The park spans the Utah and Arizona border and is part of the Navajo Indian Reservation. The reservation area, about the size of West Virginia, covers 27,000 square miles in the states of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona.