filming locations

I just wanted to let fans know that this was shot out in Monument Valley,Arizona, near Kayenta, Arizona. (Northeastern Arizona, near the Four Corners area.)

I've been out there a few times. It was a lot of fun to drive around and see the places used in the movie. A lot of it looks exactly the way it did when the movie was made.

The river shots were done just north of Monument Valley at a little place called Mexican Hat.

For me it's especially fun to have some stills when you're there. I posted some stills on the net so people could have them when they visit Monument Valley. You can find them at http://home.earthlink.net/~stcraft/monumentvalleystills.

If you want to visit Monument Valley, your best bet is to either get a room at a place called Gouldings (right in Monument Valley), or in one of the motels in Kayenta. It's sort of out in the middle of nowhere, so I advise getting a reservation. (You also might want to avoid the middle of summer and the middle of winter.)

There's a visitor's center run by the local Indian tribe (you're on an Indian reservation there), and there's also a little museum at Gouldings which is worth visiting. They have a nice room dedicated to the films shot there. It's in an old building that was actually used in this movie. And the cabin seen in the movie that John Wayne's character lived in is there as well.

I hate to think of some fan coming all the way from Europe or Asia to visit and not having stills, so that's why I made the website. It's not for making money.

Hope you have a good time. I did.

: )