This place is beautiful! We took the bear trail hike, and our guide was awesome! Very knowledgeable and kept us at a good pace. I recommend "Richard!" He was awesome!! Thank You!!

Awesome place, amazing views. Some have a good trail, which you can get to a special vista point and are able to take really nice pictures. A must-see, you can definitely make out the sediment layers with different colors and densities. Some are eroding away a bit gate than others, which makes the sediments really stand out and look amazing. Very windy, and the local animals are amazing, hard to spot at times, but they are out here.

Nice campground just outside Canyon De Chelly. Plenty of trees for shade on most camp sites. No hook ups but $20 a night. Bathrooms are mostly clean, they could use a little extra effort. The lodge has a cafeteria next door with fairly decent food at a fair price. There is a dump station and a water fill. There is also a few spigots sprinkled around the camp site for filling water jugs. There is some road noise because the park roads also service the reservation and the roads are fairly close by.

I've been in the Navajo Nation not quite 5 years. This was the only overview I had not visited. It finally opened near the first of September. The views were amazing. The trail down to the floor of the canyon was amazing. It's fairly safe, but care needs to be taken with younger children. Rest areas are frequent, but no water is available. Being your camera, photo opportunities abound truly great overview that I am glad I finally got to see

Visiting this National Monument was on my "bucket list" and I was not disappointed. The canyon itself is almost overwhelming. The best, and almost only, way to access the inner canyon is with a Navajo guided tour. You can arrange for the tour through the Thunderbird Lodge, and there are other tours as well. A shorter, and less expensive, tour will probably meet most people's goals Probably a good idea to arrive the evening before and visit the south rim view sites that first evening. It's a combination of rim views and seeing it from below that provides a full picture. The height of the shear canyon walls, some over 1000 ft, is difficult to comprehend. A photo does not do it justice, but the famous photographer Edward Curtis came close (search his name and Canyon de Chelly to see what I mean). Besides the geology, the cultural history of this site is amazing. The visitors center tells a large part of the story and, if you visit the inner canyon, your Navajo guide will give you details and show you the major archaeological sites. And culture is alive today here. The canyon is part of the Navajo Reservation and some families have leases in the canyon itself. And, nearly every local you meet will be Navajo. They love their homeland and are happy when others (we tourists) express an interest. Just say 'hi' and start talking. There is one trail by which one can access a portion of the inner canyon without a guide. From the south rim White House overlook a 1 and 1/2 mile trail leads down into the canyon. One of the local Navajo ladies hikes it down and back nearly every day so, if she can do perhaps you can, too.

I Wholeheartedly recommend both the lodge and their canyon tour. The lodge is a happy and peaceful place, the rooms have everything you need, and the cafeteria, a locals’ favorite, serves the best frybread! But nothing could have prepared us to the stunning beauty of the canyon. We took the 3 pm tour and spent 4 magical hours on the bottom of the canyon, admiring the old Anasazi houses, the gorgeous petroglyphs, the bright green vegetation that grows out of the red rocks, and we learned about the history of the Navajo people, who fought so hard to come back to their ancestors’land and who, despite all efforts to erase them, are now a vibrant community that treasure their heritage and have so much to teach the world about how to respect our environment. Thank you David, our wonderful guide, and thank you to all the lovely Thunderbird staff, this visit was the highlight of our vacation.