15-day Southwest Grand Circle Tour

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive in Las Vegas and drive to Zion

Pass By: 1 Zion Park Blvd, Zion National Park, UT 84767-9402
Fly from your hometown to McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, where you will meet your travel companions. You will be transported to the hotel with your baggage. This service is included in the tour price. This first evening is arranged open for your leisure, though we are happy to suggest many things to do. At 7 pm, after a wonderful Welcome Dinner, continue to get to know your fellow travelers.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 2: Zion National Park

Pass By: 1 Zion Park Blvd, Zion National Park, UT 84767-9402
Enjoy a locally-inspired breakfast. We will help you load up at 7:30 am for an 8 am departure. Your guide will escort you north from Las Vegas via Interstate 15 to Mesquite, NV; There we will stop to stretch our legs for 15 minutes. After the shortstop, we will cross the Virgin River Gorge, continuing north on Interstate 15. This stretch of road boasts sixteen incredible bridges, spanning deep gorge and the river below. After lunch, you'll visit Brigham Young's house on a guided tour. The journey continues as we see the Temple of Saint George from the road. Not long after, we will arrive at the hotel where we'll spend the night. After dinner, we will drive through the park to see the sunset. The sunset is always unique and always amazing. On each side of the road, the rising red and yellow cliffs of Zion Park stretch skyward to the star-studded sky.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 3: Zion National Park

Pass By: 1 Zion Park Blvd, Zion National Park, UT 84767-9402
The high red and yellow cliffs of Zion National Park will loom above us on both sides of the road. Day 3 in Zion Park will be breathtaking. Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby. From there, you will travel to Zion National Park to explore places like White Throne, Angel's Landing, the Court of the Patriarch and the Narrows. All the while, learn local history and hear stories of the area's incredible past.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 4: Bryce Canyon

Pass By: Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
We will help you gather your bags at 7:30 am as our departure will again be at 8 am. The view is impressive as we travel to Mount Carmel Junction. We'll make a morning break here. The trip to Bryce Canyon National Park will continue around 10 am. We enter the park at approximately 2 pm where you will see red and yellow hoodoos (unique rock formations), pinnacles, and spires. After we leave the park around 4 pm, we will check into Ruby's Lodge for the night where you will enjoy another amazing eating experience.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 5: Grand Staircase Escalante Monument / Capitol Reef

Pass By: Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, 735 W Main, UT 84726
On the fifth day of your incredible journey, you will travel down Road 12, known as the All-American Road for its picturesque views and deep canyons carved through the landscape. In time, we will arrive in Moab, Utah. We will settle into the hotel where we will start our evening events, beginning with dinner. Take a ride into the park at night. Examine the millions of stars. The sky seems so big, and the stars look so close at the park. Moab at night puts on quite a show! We'll stay here for two nights

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 6: Arches National Park

Pass By: Arches National Park, Moab, UT
Arches National Park allows viewing and exploring some of its 2,000+ arches. Unparalleled, distinctive, and unspoiled, the park is primarily as it has been for centuries. Unchanged, dreamlike, out of this world. The list of landscape features and formations is almost endless: fault lines, petrified dunes, arches, bridges, balanced rocks, spires, and many, many more. On this day, we are going to visit Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Double Arch Park Avenue, Windows Section, Balanced Rock, Courthouse Wash, and other interesting areas in the park. While traveling through the park, you can explore the Cove of Caves, the Garden of Eden, the Petrified Sand Dunes, the Fiery Chamber Viewpoint, the Double Arch, and others. We'll jump on the jet boat and tour the park via the Colorado River. Then you're off to another amazing dinner.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 7: Canyonlands National Park

Pass By: Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT 84532
You'll visit Canyonlands National Park- Island in the sky. You'll see a wilderness of countless canyons, buttes, mesas, and other geological features that were carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers over millions of years. You can walk along the canyon's rims. Visit one of the park's most photographed geological features the Mesa Arch. It is best to photograph this formation in the morning. Walk along the world's edge to Grandview Point, Murphy Point, or Upheaval Dome. You'll then enjoy the San Rafael Swell on the way to Capitol Reef National Park, where you'll walk to Hickman Bridge. Enjoy Grand Wash and seek out geodes (rocks with crystals inside) and other activities in this little-known, under-visited park. In one of the local hotels in this area, dinner and an enjoyable evening will be experienced. Once you've finished, you'll retire to Moab, UT for lunch and a lovely evening before you retire at the hotel.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 8: Mesa Verde National Park / 4 Corners National Monument

Pass By: Montezuma County, Mesa Verde National Park, CO
Pull the bag and enjoy breakfast at the hotel at 7:30 am. Leaving at 8 am. South from Moab to Monticello, then east to Colorado. There will be a short leg stretch in Dove Creek and lunch in Cortez. We then travel to the National Park of Mesa Verde. You'll visit the dramatic ruins of Pueblo 's old cliff houses, built-in shallow caves, and rocky overhangs. Then stop at viewpoints and a museum at the top of the table before heading through the San Juan Mountains Destination tonight Durango, Colorado. Durango during the night)

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 9: Durango and Silverton Railroad

Pass By: Silverton Northern Railroad, Silverton, CO 81433, USA
Score a real experience on the border with a steam engine train ride on Durango and Silverton Railroad, an impressive 1881 track that snakes along the canyons of the Animas River. It will be lunchtime when you arrive in Silverton. Enjoy a delicious lunch in Silverton.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 10: Monument Valley and Canyon De Chelly

Pass By: Four Corners Monument, NM-597, Teec Nos Pos, AZ 86514
Driving south out of Durango, you will visit the Aztec Ruins in Aztec, NM. Then travel on toward the 4 Corners where you’ll have the opportunity to stand in four states at one time! From 4 Corners you’ll go south to Chinle and Canyon de Chelly where tonight you’ll stay in Kayenta AZ.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 11: Canyon De Chelly

Pass By: Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Highway 191, Chinle, AZ 86503
Experience Canyon de Chelly from the bottom riding in a 6x 6 truck with a Navajo Guide. Then we're going to Monument Valley. You will also visit classic Western filming spots and less frequent outcroppings in the backcountry.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 12: Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend

Pass By: Antelope Canyon, Navajo Tribal Park, Page, AZ 86040
Your journey through Antelope Canyon will take about two hours, giving photographers plenty of time. Antelope Canyon, formed by erosion and flash floods, is one of the world's most famous slot canyons. You'll tour Antelope Canyon 's hypnotic canyons with a local Navajo as your guide.

After Antelope Canyon we head over to Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States. We take some pictures. Then head off to Glen Canyon Dam for a 14-mile float trip down the Colorado River. Surrounded by deep sandstone canyons, plus a stop to view some fascinating petroglyphs. Finish this trip we pick you up at the dock and head straight to Grand Canyon Village.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 13: Grand Canyon

Pass By: Grand Canyon South Rim, Highway 64, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ 86023
Breakfast at the hotel, departure at 8a. Lunch is going to be at Cameron Trading Post. You'll have time to explore the trading post until 2p. At approximately 3 pm, you will enter Grand Canyon National Park, and the first stop will be at the Desert View Overlook. From Desert View, you'll travel along the river to the Grand Canyon Village, where you'll spend the night. You'll see the IMAX theater movie about the Grand Canyon after checking into the hotel... Return to the hotel in time for the Rim's sunset.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 14: The Grand Canyon Caverns

Pass By: Grand Canyon Caverns, Mile Marker 115 Route 66, Peach Springs, AZ 86434
Bag pull 6:30a, hotel breakfast, departure 8a. In Williams, there's going to be a leg stretch stop, and then we'll be off to Route 66. Following the longest undisturbed stretch of this nostalgic highway, you will visit the city of Seligman for a lunch break; stop at the Grand Canyon Caverns for a tour of the largest dry caverns in the United States; travel through Peach Springs, headquarters of the Hualapai Tribe, home of the Wild and Hackberry General Store's Valentine Keepers. We'll come to Kingman for dinner and night accommodation.

"The Grand Canyon Caverns are the largest dry caverns in the United States, located 200 to 300 feet below the surface and accessible through our exploration lift. With this elevator, you enter and leave the caverns, dropping 21 underground stories, making the caverns readily available. Since the caverns are so deep underground, the temperature is always constant, the temperature is mild 56 degrees, and there is no moisture. The caves offer several unique geological formations that can easily be seen from our smoothly paved footpaths. The walking trails have handrails, and there are several benches on the way to rest.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.

Day 15: Las Vegas

Pass By: Hoover Dam Access Road, Boulder City, NV 89109
Bag pull 7:30a, including breakfast at the hotel. Setting off 8a. You'll have a tour of the historic district of the old town, see the Sahuaro Cactus, visit the Locomotive Park and stop at the Powerhouse Visitor Center for a leg stretch and last chance for souvenirs from AZ. Leaving Kingman AZ at 11 am. Then travel to Hoover Dam for the Dam Tour. After the Tour and some photos then travel to Las Vegas to Check-in at 15:00. Dinner included tonight in the hotel, and everyone is saying goodbye!

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.