Navajo Generating Station

The Navajo Generating Station rose in the early 1970s on 1,786 acres leased from the Navajo Nation, its stacks climbing 775 feet above the desert. For forty-five years it was the largest coal plant in the West, burning Black Mesa coal to move Colorado River water into central Arizona. It also carried the Navajo and Hopi economies on its lease and jobs, and fouled the region's air. It shut down on November 18, 2019, and this slot-canyon sculpture, bent from its own boiler tubes, is the crew's memorial to it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Antelope Canyon — 6.2 mi
  Tsé bighánílíní — where the water runs through the rock

More markers nearby

• Native Americans — steps away
• Rainbow Bridge National Monument — steps away
• Major John Wesley Powell — 1.7 mi
• Glen Canyon Bridge — 1.7 mi