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Scenic Parks Explorer
14 Days from $3,025 Tour Code: SPE

 

Day 1 Arrive Las Vegas

VIP Door-to-Door Transfer to your local airport for your flight to Las Vegas. A complimentary transfer is provided to the tour hotel. Your Tour Director is available at the hotel this afternoon to greet you and answer your questions. At 6 p.m., gather at the hotel with your Tour Director and fellow travelers for a Welcome Reception.
Welcome Reception Included

Day 2 Las Vegas - Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks

Depart Las Vegas for the graceful slot canyons and towering cliffs of Zion National Park. Then it’s onward to Bryce Canyon, home to the world’s largest concentration of hoodoos—tall limestone spires that rise majestically from the desert floor.
Full Breakfast and Dinner Included

Day 3 Bryce - Salt Lake City

Leave the red rock canyons and travel north to Utah’s capital. See the famed Temple Square, headquarters to the Mormon church and home to the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This evening, perhaps enjoy an optional visit to Brigham Young’s former home, followed by dinner at the Lion House, featuring pioneer-style ambiance and cuisine.
Full Breakfast Included

Day 4 Salt Lake City - Jackson

Get a glimpse of the route of the pioneers as you cross the Oregon Trail and enter Wyoming. Scenic Jackson stands in the shadows of the icy peaks of the Grand Tetons. This evening, join your Tour Director and traveling companions for a Highlight Dinner.
Full Breakfast and Highlight Dinner Included

Day 5 Jackson - Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Parks

Perhaps rise early for an optional guided raft trip to spot wildlife on the Snake River (seasonal). Then traverse Grand Teton National Park on the way to Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park. Join a local expert to explore the spouting geysers, bubbling hot springs and mud paint pots. (When the South Entrance is closed due to weather conditions, the tour will travel west from Jackson via Idaho and enter Yellowstone National Park through the West Entrance.)
Full Breakfast and Dinner Included

Day 6 Yellowstone National Park

Explore the impressive Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with its stunning waterfalls and a chance to see bison and elk. Watch in wonder as Old Faithful’s waters arc nearly 130 feet into the air. This evening, relax under the great basin of stars.
Full Breakfast Included

Day 7 Yellowstone - Cody - Billings

Head north to the town of Cody, named for its most famous native son, Buffalo Bill. Get a glimpse into its lively history at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Then it’s on to Big Sky Country for a unique Highlight Dinner. As you dine on down-home cooking, a cowboy entertainer regales you with tales and songs of life in the saddle. Maybe take a quick harmonica lesson, toss some horseshoes, or even don some traditional cowboy duds.
Full Breakfast and Highlight Dinner Included

Day 8 Billings - Little Bighorn - Rapid City

Today begins with a visit to Little Big Horn, where Custer led his 263 men against several thousand Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Then travel east through the Black Hills to Rapid City.
Full Breakfast Included

Day 9 Rapid City (Black Hills Excursion Included)

Discover the natural and man-made wonders of the Black Hills with a drive through stunning scenery on your way to visit Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial, a mountain carving of the famed war chief of the Oglala people. Return to Rapid City this afternoon for some leisure time.
Full Breakfast Included

Day 10 Rapid City - Denver

Cross some of the West’s most beautiful terrain today as you travel through the expansive grasslands of Wyoming on your way to Denver, the Mile High City. This evening, join your traveling companions for dinner.
Full Breakfast and Dinner Included

Day 11 Denver - Vail - Arches National Park - Moab

Ascend into the Rockies and stretch your legs in Vail before descending to magnificent Arches National Park. Here, the wind and rain have eroded the sandstone into more than 2,000 natural arches. End your day’s journey at your riverside lodge. Tonight is at your leisure – perhaps opt for taking in the sunset over the red cliffs and a western barbecue dinner right at your ranch-style lodge. Or if you’re in the mood for more excitement, opt for a thrilling jetboat ride along the mighty Colorado, with a Cowboy Barbecue dinner all included as well.
Full Breakfast Included

Day 12 Moab - Mesa Verde National Park - Kayenta

Between AD 600 and 1300, the Ancestral Puebloan people carved houses and entire cities out of the sandstone of the canyon walls at Mesa Verde National Park, now a UNESCO site. Explore some of the cliff-top buildings and look down at the massive Cliff House, the largest cliff dwelling in the world. Stay the night in the tiny Navajo town of Kayenta.
Full Breakfast and Dinner Included

Day 13 Kayenta - Monument Valley - Grand Canyon National Park

Marvel at Monument Valley’s landscape of towering sandstone buttes in special open-air vehicles accompanied by a local guide. Visit the home of the Navajo people, stopping at historic Cameron Trading Post. Breathtaking views along Scenic Desert View Drive just hint at the most spectacular of all vistas – the vast panorama of the Grand Canyon unfolding before you. Meet with a local expert who will enlighten you about the more than two billion years of geology revealed in the canyon. Then gather with your fellow travelers to watch the sunset, the fading light gilding the canyon and casting enchanting shadows. Tonight, toast your grand adventure and your new life-long memories at a Farewell Dinner inside the park.
Full Breakfast and Farewell Dinner Included

Day 14 - Grand Canyon - Depart Las Vegas

If you like, take an optional helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft flight-seeing trip to see the canyon from the sky. Hit the road again, stopping in Seligman and Kingman, Route 66 hotspots that have kept the old “Mother Road’s” culture alive. End your journey back in Las Vegas where a complimentary transfer is provided to Las Vegas International Airport.
FullBreakfast Included

Please do not schedule any flights before 6:30pm.

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