7 Days/6 Nights in the Southwest – Grand Canyon, Moab & Red Rocks National Parks Tour
Experience the wonders of the Southwest with scenic hikes, thrilling adventures, breathtaking national parks, and hands-on museum visits that bring nature and science to life.
Program Summary
Tour Number: 0425-197584
Journey through the Southwest’s most stunning landscapes with hikes in Arches National Park, visits to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, and Dead Horse Point State Park. Experience a thrilling Hummer 4×4 Sunset Tour, explore Goblin Valley, and take in breathtaking views at Glen Canyon Overlook. Your adventure is rounded out with free time in Flagstaff, visits to Red Rock State Park, and interactive experiences at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum and Arizona Science Center.
Program Highlights & Inclusions
- Round trip flights to your destination
- Professional tour manager with your group throughout the tour
- Motor coach transportation throughout your tour
- Two nights hotel accommodations in Moab, UT
- One night Hotel Accommodations near Bryce Canyon
- Two nights Hotel Accommodations in the Flagstaff area
- One night Hotel Accommodations in Phoenix
- Hike at Arches National Park
- Visit to the Grand Canyon
- Visit to Arches National Park
- Visit to Dead Horse Point State Park
- Hummer 4×4 Sunset Tour
- Visit to Goblin Valley State Park
- Visit to Capitol Reef National Park
- Visit to Bryce Canyon National Park
- Visit to the Scenic Glen Canyon Overlook in Page, AZ
- Free time in Flagstaff
- Visit to Red Rock State Park
- Admission to the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum
- Admission to Arizona Science Center with Dorrance Planetarium visit
- Free Time on Main Street in Sedona
Daily Itinerary
You’ll board your flight for Salt Lake City. When you arrive in Utah, you will meet your tour manager.
You’ll load your luggage onto the coach and begin the drive to Moab (approximately 2 hours). You’ll make a stop for lunch.
After lunch, you’ll visit the Prehistoric Museum where you’ll view the geologic, fossil and prehistoric human records found in eastern Utah.
You’ll depart and begin your drive to Moab, where you’ll have dinner.
After dinner, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus to visit Arches National Park and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This red rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets.
You’ll hike Arches National Park. Accessed only when accompanied by an experienced guide, this hike twists and turns among contorted orange-tan fins, towers, spires and arches. Although you won’t be able to walk up to them, you’ll experience incredible views of Delicate Arch and Double Arch.
You’ll visit Dead Horse Point State Park where you’ll take a short hike to Dead Horse Point where 2,000 feet above a gooseneck in the Colorado River, an ever-changing landscape unfurls. Immense vertical cliffs meet with canyons carved by ice, water, and wind creating a visual masterpiece.
After lunch, you will return to your hotel for some free time.
You’ll board your coach and leave the hotel for the drive to Arches National Park where you’ll have a short visit and a chance to see the sunset and a picnic dinner in the park.
You’ll take a Sunset Hummer Tour where you’ll enjoy an evening outdoors filled with excitement and fun ending with a breathtaking Moab desert sunset. Your tour also features exciting views of canyons, hidden arches, prehistoric dinosaur tracks, and awe-inspiring panoramic overlooks of Arches National Park and the Colorado river. You’ll experience the thrill of traveling up and down rolling petrified sand dunes as you ascend to the top of the Slickrock surrounding Moab.
After your tour, you’ll return to the hotel for the evening.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel room, board the coach and depart for the day.
You’ll visit Goblin Valley State Park, a strange and colorful valley, which is unlike any other in Utah. The landscape, covered with sandstone goblins and formations, is often compared to Mars. You’ll have some time to explore the geology among the nooks and gnomes.
You’ll visit Capitol Reef National Park, located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country. Capitol Reef National Park is a hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons, domes, and bridges in the Waterpocket Fold, a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth) extending almost 100 miles.
After lunch, you’ll drive to Bryce Canyon National Park (approximately 2.5 hours).
You’ll visit Bryce Canyon National Park. There is no place quite like Bryce Canyon. Hoodoos (odd-shaped pillars of rock left standing from the forces of erosion) can be found on every continent, but here is the archetypal “hoodoo-iferous” terrain. Descriptions fail. Cave without a roof? Forest of stone? Even photographs strain credulity. When you visit maybe you’ll come up with a better name. In the meantime “Bryce” will have to suffice.
After dinner, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel room, board the bus and depart for the day.
You’ll arrive in Page and stop at the scenic Glen Canyon Overlook (approximately 2.5 hours).
After lunch, you will continue on your drive to Flagstaff (approximately 2.5 hours).
You will have free time to explore the charming town of Flagstaff. The Flagstaff area got its start in 1876 with a pioneer legacy that centers on ranching, lumber mills and the railroad. Many of the buildings in Flagstaff’s historic downtown area date to the early 1900’s and are used today as stores, galleries, hotels and restaurants. Today it is also home to Northern Arizona University (NAU).
After dinner, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and depart the hotel for the Grand Canyon (approximately 1.5 hours).
You’ll visit the powerful and inspiring Grand Canyon, located in the state of Arizona. The Grand Canyon is considered by some to be one of the seven natural wonders of the world, due to its sensational decorative colors and majestic natural beauty. It measures 18 miles wide, 277 miles long, and a mile deep. The area is encompassed by over one million acres. To put it into perspective, the island of Manhattan which is nearly 34 Square miles would be able to fit in the Grand Canyon Park nearly 58 times. You’ll hike and enjoy the spectacular views of the canyon. You’ll see Mather’s Point, Grand Canyon Village, The Yavapi Observation Station and more!
Your coach will pick you up at the Grand Canyon for the drive back to Flagstaff for dinner.
After dinner, you will return to your hotel for the evening.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your rooms and board your bus for Sedona (approximately 1 hour).
You’ll have a chance to explore and hike at Red Rock State Park, a 286 acre nature preserve with stunning scenery. Trails throughout the park wind through manzanita and juniper to reach the rich banks of Oak Creek. Green meadows are framed by native vegetation and hills of red rock.
You’ll have free time in the Main Street District, a walkable downtown, locally known as Uptown Sedona with magnificent vistas throughout. Pause a moment on one of the locally crafted benches to savor the experience and fill your senses with the endless red rock views. There are also countless outdoor sculptures that add to the beauty to the area.
After lunch, you’ll drive to Phoenix (approximately 2 hours).
After dinner in Phoenix, you’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your rooms and board the bus for the day.
You’ll visit the Arizona Science Center with 300+ hands on exhibits. Named one of the premier science centers in the nation, Arizona Science Center engages curious minds through science! During your visit, you’ll spend time in the Dorrance Planetarium, one of the largest, most technologically advanced planetariums in the United States. Arizona Science Center’s Dorrance Planetarium features a NanoSeam design, the dome is the world’s first of its kind at a science center or museum.
After the museum and lunch, you will drive to the Phoenix Airport.
