Gouldings All-Day Tours

This is another Ancestral Puebloan Ruin of importance in Monument Valley, but this one is slightly different from the others because it is on the ground. The ruin is on the edge of a narrow canyon that has high rocks on both sides. However, these ruin is fenced off and the fence was moved farther out from the ruin in 2018 to better protect it and the petroglyphs. The petroglyphs, like many petroglyphs in the Colorado plateau, either depicted extinct animals or were the product of a vivid imagination. Hands in the petroglyphs are small and imply that the Ancestral Puebloan people who lived at Monument Valley were unusually short.

This butte is a two-step butte; there is a large butte with a narrow one on top of it.

These three spires are best viewed from the John Ford Point area, where they can be most easily recognized. The smallest of the spires, which is in the center, has a rock that sits on it. The large spire on the southern end looks like a person when viewed from the John Ford Point area.

This arch is unique because you can see the arch from a rock formation below it.

A sand dune is right next to the arch.

This butte is north of Sleeping Dragon Butte. The Flying Eagle is west of Yei Bi Chei and the eastern end of Flying Eagle is near a collection of sand dunes and Sand Springs. A canyon cuts into the southwestern part of the butte.