2026 Arizona & Utah: Monument Valley, Mexican Hat

Monument Valley, a red-sand desert region on the Arizona-Utah border, is known for the towering sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Mexican Hat is a census-designated place (CDP) in Utah. The name 'Mexican Hat' comes from a curiously sombrero-shaped 60-foot wide by 12-foot high rock outcropping on the northeast edge of town.