Note: This is the actual view from Goulding's Lodge (airport)

Goulding's Airstrip Flight Operating Procedures, Rules and Regulations

The following are procedures to be used at the Goulding’s airstrip in Monument Valley.

• Overnight camping is allowed only at the campground.

• Please sign a waiver at Goulding’s front office agreeing that the airstrip  is “fly at your own risk”. 

• Ground equipment (trailers, etc.) should be parked on the west side of the airstrip in the big gravel area south of the windsock.  Do not park near the hangar or on the paved areas.

• No overflights in the areas south and west of the runway between the runway and the cliffs (mesas?).  Do not “buzz” any of the Goulding’s Lodge buildings.

• Any ground equipment or aircraft that is to be left at Goulding’s airstrip after you leave must be cleared with management.

• The asphalt parking area at the south end of the airstrip is reserved for commuter aircraft and short-term parking.  Other aircraft should use the dirt parking area west of the runway.

• No touch and go’s.

• Takeoff is from runway 34 and landing is on runway 16.

• CTAF is 122.9.

• Field elevation is 5,208’.  Be aware of density altitude.

The Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is a separate entity from Goulding’s Lodge.  The park superintendent has asked Goulding’s to please “suggest” to Ultralight individuals that they pay the minimum $5.00 per person entry fee into the park if they plan on flying over the park.  I suggest that we pay $20 towards the Navajo school community!

Link to Article on Monument Valley

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