View from Artist Point, showing Mitchell Bute and the Castle, Bear and the Rabbit - Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, UT and AZ. Many of the "monuments" in Monument Valley are the remnants of intense volcanic action that took place in the Southwest millions of years ago. Some formations, like Mitchell Butte (foreground), are actually the hard cores of volcanoes after the softer outlying rocks have eroded away.View from Artist Point - Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, UT. and AZ. Located on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona and southern Utah, Monument Valley is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the American West. The terrain was originally a massive layer of sandstone which eroded away, leaving mesas, buttes and pinnacles that rise like monuments from the valley floor. The area has been used as a background in many Hollywood western films.scenic Film Size 6X7cm