Arizona’s Monument Valley, magnificent site of many classic Hollywood Western classics, has some of the most fantastic views in he world. Now they’ll be even more convenient for visitors. The View Hotel, the first ever to be built inside the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, which is an enormous vista of nearly 30 thousand acres of government-protected Native American lands.

Alongside The View, and scheduled to open in October, is a new visitors center and museum. They’ll provide visual and sound information about the Monument Valley features. They’ll also house a museum honoring World War II Navajo secret code talkers who, as US Marines, were vital communicators who confused enemy intelligence during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

For more information, go to www.navajonationparks.org