The Giant Snake crawled along the expanse of sandstone and eventually created a passageway to the other side. It is a huge, red sandstone formation that is 47 feet in diameter and 100 feet high. The formation suggests a window through a rock and it is listed as one the Seven Wonders of the World. Climbing the rock is forbidden. It is a scared place to the Navajo.
Visitors can still get a good look at Window Rock from below by hiking around it.
There are pieces still seen today near its base that are from a prehistoric pueblo. Kinlichee Tribal Park is only 22 miles west of Window Rock. The park covers 640 acres and is a complex of Anasazi ruins. Visitors can take a self-guided hiking trail to the ruins and travel by exhibits explaining the dwellings. There are picnic areas that overlook the ruins.