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It wasn’t too bad for something quick to eat. I got a “Navajo Taco”, which was a piece of fry bread (a Navajo flat bread deep fried) with standard taco filling. Me and Jason had stopped over at Goulding’s Store where they had a small fast food bar.

We all sat down on the wood benches surrounding the fire and ate dinner together.

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Jimmy was his name, and he was a software engineer from China “Where iPhone is made!” as he told us. Jason, my husband, got the fire going, and after a few minutes another camper came over to us, “Hello, mind if I join you?” he said with a heavy Asian accent. Since we were camping, we absolutely had to build a campfire! We set up the wood, and the owner also showed us where there were some matches and lighter fluid to start it with. We left the campground for a while to go visit the park itself and Goulding’s Lodge (you can you can read here about all the things to do in Monument Valley), and then came back just before it got dark as we didn’t want to get lost or anything. They also did have some showers with running water on the other side of the area. Well, at least you get a nice view! Since we forgot any sort of flashlight, we used our phones light to guide to us and from the outhouse at night, not really the best but it worked lol. Oh and for bathrooms…there was the lone outhouse, set a little ways away from the tents, and facing towards one of the monuments. There was a light hooked onto the pole in the center of the tent so we could see around in the dark-which was great since we forgot to take a flashlight with us! Yeah.so I highly recommend bringing a flashlight, especially one of these headlamps, if you’re going camping- or glamping even! It was a big white canvas tent with 2 beds inside with colorful wool blankets, even a couch! (Yes, we took the glamping route, as we didn’t bring any camping gear with us on the plane). We didn’t see anybody in the campground at first, but after a minute or two one of the owners came out and greeted us. I definitely advise arriving during daylight hours! I had planned to get here before dark as I heard there weren’t any streetlights, so it would be much more difficult to find the place.

We drove into our campsite in the afternoon.

San Juan Inn – includes yurts as an option for glamping!Ī view of Monument Valley from Goulding’s Lodge.

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If the places right in Monument Valley are full or too expensive, you can also try in the nearby towns of Kayenta (20 minutes to the south), or Mexican Hat (20 minutes north). More modest glamping tents will just include a comfy bed or cot. And by tent I’m not talking one of those little small popups, but a big canvas tent that you can stand up and walk around in. There are the extremes where you have a full on hotel bed, nice floor, and even bathroom facilities inside or nearby your “tent”. *Glamping is a newly coined word that means “glamorous camping”. If you’ve never tried Airbnb yet, I highly recommend it! This is the campground where we stayed, and we booked it through Airbnb.

Mustang Valley Campground, also located right outside the Tribal Park on Monument Valley Road.

How cool would it be to spend the night in a tipi! They also have cabins and tent sites available.

Monument Valley Tipi Village, located just before Goulding’s.

Goulding’s has a campground too, complete with RV hookups, cabins, and tent sites.

It’s got RV hookups and traditional camping sites that you need your own tent for.

The View Campground, located in the Tribal Park itself.

If not, don’t worry! There are Monument Valley campgrounds where you can rent a tent, or even go *glamping in a nice big canvas tent with a bed, a tipi, or a Hogan (a traditional dwelling of the natives that’s like a big wooden, or stone hut). If you have your own tent and camping supplies, great.