Cultural Photography Tours & Trips in Four Corners

A Navajo guide takes you through Monument Valley's mesas and buttes in a 4-wheel drive, passing through the same desert formations that appeared in classic Western films. After the valley tour, you'll browse authentic Navajo and Hopi handmade jewelry at Cameron Trading Post, which has been around for over 100 years.

You'll see Monument Valley's sandstone buttes and Canyon de Chelly's Puebloan cliff dwellings with Navajo Tribal Park rangers, then photograph Antelope Canyon X's light beams with Native guides. The trip includes a hike on Grand Canyon's South Kaibab Trail to Ooh Aah Point, plus stops at Navajo National Monument's canyons, Sunset Crater's volcanic landscape, and Walnut Canyon's Sinagua ruins.

This route crosses the Four Corners region from Navajo Nation's desert mesas up to Colorado's pine-covered San Juan Mountain foothills. At Canyon de Chelly, a Navajo guide takes you down to the canyon floor to see White House Ruins, an area you can't visit without a local guide leading the way.

You'll hike three different Grand Canyon trails—South Kaibab along Cedar Ridge's exposed ridgeline, Bright Angel descending through a fault line with cliff walls on both sides, and historic Grandview Trail that miners hand-carved back in the 1880s. Desert View Watchtower's four stories give you views of the Colorado River cutting through ancient rock layers, and there are 2 nights at El Tovar Hotel.

On a Navajo-guided jeep tour through Monument Valley, you'll see the iconic sandstone towers rising 400-1,000 feet - the same landscapes featured in countless Western films. Lower Antelope Canyon offers views of wind-sculpted dunes where light beams pierce narrow slot canyon walls, then you'll frame Horseshoe Bend's river meander from the canyon rim. At Slide Rock State Park and Bell Rock, afternoon light transforms Sedona's desert landscape, creating great conditions for photographing the red rock formations.

See Monument Valley's famous rock formations along the Scenic Drive, where tall buttes rise from the desert floor like scenes from classic westerns. Stop at Horseshoe Bend for views of the Colorado River as it curves through Glen Canyon's red rocks - it looks especially good at golden hour. Walk the Blue Mesa and Crystal Forest trails in Petrified Forest National Park to see petrified trees and colorful desert landscapes.