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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: andrewj on November 18, 2007, 09:21:54 am

Title: Mystery Valley Location?
Post by: andrewj on November 18, 2007, 09:21:54 am
Does anyone know the location of "Mystery Plateau, Arizona"? I've seen several photographs in galleries which refer to this location, but can't find it in any of the well-known photo location books. The geology looks like Coyote Buttes, but the shapes don't look like the usual pictures of The Wave and other well-known points.

Thanks
Andrew
Title: Mystery Valley Location?
Post by: Tim Gray on November 18, 2007, 09:44:19 am
Are you are probably talking about Mystery Valley, as per the title of your post rather than its' contents - I'm not familiar with any Mystery Plateau.

Mystery Valley is in Monument Valley Az.  You need a local guide since it's on Indian lands.
Title: Mystery Valley Location?
Post by: AJSJones on November 18, 2007, 06:21:15 pm
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Does anyone know the location of "Mystery Plateau, Arizona"? I've seen several photographs in galleries which refer to this location, but can't find it in any of the well-known photo location books. The geology looks like Coyote Buttes, but the shapes don't look like the usual pictures of The Wave and other well-known points.

Thanks
Andrew
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Can you post (a link to) a picture?  It may well have been called that to keep its true identity and location shrouded in, well, mystery.  Just like "The Place" isn't a real name
Title: Mystery Valley Location?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 18, 2007, 08:37:28 pm
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Are you are probably talking about Mystery Valley, as per the title of your post rather than its' contents - I'm not familiar with any Mystery Plateau.

Mystery Valley is in Monument Valley Az.  You need a local guide since it's on Indian lands.
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A search on Topo 6 from DeLorme confirms what Tim says. The only other Mystery Valley in the U.S. seems to be in Georgia.
Title: Mystery Valley Location?
Post by: camilla on November 18, 2007, 08:56:32 pm
Hi
You guys are right- it's next to Monument Valley- you need to go with a navajo guide- to get there you are taken back onto Route 163 a few miles down, going towards Kayenta and then into Mystery Valley. It's a very beautiful place but totally different from Monument Valley. You have ruins and arches and.. people still living there.
Enjoy
camilla