Photo: Ernst Brötz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This butte is named after a miner in the area who died while mining. He worked with Mitchell, who also got an outcrop named after him.
Merrick Butte is a butte located in Monument Valley and is part of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, similar to its neighbors West and East Mitten Buttes just to the north. It was named after silver miner Jack Merrick, killed by Native Americans in 1880.
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Probably also the most recognizable feature in Monument Valley and Western films. You can get a fairly close-up view of this mitten from the Wildcat Trail, which goes in a loop around the West Mitten.
Probably the most recognizable feature in Monument Valley and Western films, along with the other Mitten. It is the larger of the two mittens, but is farther away from the park headquarters than the West Mitten.
This dramatic butte is northeast of John Ford's Point; if you go to John Ford's Point and look to your right, it should be the largest butte in that direction.
A Navajo-owned tour company that offers many different cultural tours of Monument Valley.