Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyon de Chelly is a National Monument located on the Navajo Nation in Eastern Arizona. This area has held five thousand years of history from

200 million years young tree amongst purple badlands

Seconds before sunrise, southern badlands

Incoming May monsoon with buried log

Small mesa, southern badlands

Scattered petrified wood, Blue Mesa area

Overlooking a badlands basin, Blue Mesa area

Creeping sunrise and badland detail

Petrified stump segment with bark texture

Detail of crystalline quartz structure within petrified wood

Petrified wood deposit with a "mulch" pile appearance

BNSF trackage through the park

Mammal specimens of the museum collection

10,000 years of human artifacts found within the park

Selection of some of the oldest intact plant fossils in the world