The Utah Town That ISN'T In Utah

                                 A doctored sign near the community of Navajo Mountain.


By Lynn Arave


MANY times jokes are made about Park City and/or Moab not really being Utah towns, based on their social and religious differences with most other municipalities in the Beehive State.
However, the one single town in Utah that truly isn't in Utah is Navajo Mountain.
Although this town's trading post, schools, Navajo Tribal office and U.S. Post Office are all at least several miles INSIDE the Utah border, that's only a technicality to residents here.
The vast majority of vehicles you will spot in Navajo Mountain sport Arizona license plates.
The area code there is 928, Arizona based.
Also, the U.S. Post Office there states Arizona, instead of Utah.
Navajo Mountain is in southeastern Utah, with Page, Arizona, as the nearest town of significant size.

                  Yes, you can see Rainbow Bridge with the naked eye from atop Navajo Mountain.

To reach this isolated community, you have to travel deep into Arizona by way of Page or Monument Valley. Then, between the small Navajo towns of Kaibito and Shonto, just off highway 98, you go north into Utah.
So, the only access to this town is from Arizona. Hence, likely why Arizona dominates this Utah community.
This area is the Arizona exception to Utah's borders.
Navajo Mountain is a free-standing, huge, whale looking kind of mountain that rises to 10,388 feet above sea level on the northwest side of the community. Except for its southern flank, the majority of this massive mountain resides in Utah as well.

                        The sacred Navajo Mountain from near the Utah-Arizona border.

                                  The view from the south side of  the top of  Navajo Mountain.

                             The Navajo Mountain Chapter House opened in 1959.