Day 1 - Sunday, 4/27/2025 - Dinner To Salt Lake City
Upon arrival meet your Tour Manager and transfer to your hotel. Salt Lake City, “The City of Saints” was founded by Brigham Young in 1847 (altitude 4,226’). Enjoy a Welcome Dinner this evening with your fellow travelers. |
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Day 2 - Monday, 4/28/2025 - Breakfast Salt Lake City / Moab
This morning enjoy a panoramic Salt Lake City Tour featuring Temple Square with its lovely landscaping and famous Tabernacle, the State Capitol, and the University of Utah--site of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Later head south and arrive in Moab (altitude 4,026’) late afternoon. Check into your hotel for a four night stay. |
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Day 3 - Tuesday, 4/29/2025 - Breakfast Canyonlands
Today visit Canyonlands National Park featuring deeply eroded canyons interspersed with sheer-sided mesas and a variety of spires, arches and unusual rock formations. The area was established as a national park in 1964 and is known for its dramatic desert landscape carved by the Colorado River. Later stop at Dead Horse Point State Park, towering high above the Colorado River offering breathtaking views of canyon country and the snaking Colorado River. This afternoon enjoy Wine Tasting experience outside of Moab. Grapes thrive in the warm and dry climate of southern Utah which is home to several beautiful wineries with picturesque views of the western landscape.
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Day 4 - Wednesday, 4/30/2025 - Breakfast - Lunch Monument Valley
This morning enter the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal area (altitude 7,096’) offering vistas of stunning rock formations on your way to Monument Valley, the most filmed area in the west. Enjoy an included lunch at Goulding’s Lodge and free time to visit Goulding’s Museum & Trading Post. See a collection of artifacts and a movie set from a John Wayne film. Later enjoy a Monument Valley Scenic Drive Tour with a knowledgeable Navajo guide aboard a four-wheel vehicle. Explore the areas oddly shaped monoliths, buttes and mesas of red sandstone. This area was the setting for some of John Ford’s most memorable films. Return early this evening to Moab.
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Day 5 - Thursday, 5/1/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner Arches National Park
Tour Arches National Park, one of our country’s great national parks. Explore and see some of the famous arches, over 2,000 in total and marvel at other red rock formations and canyons. The afternoon is free to relax or explore Moab on your own. This evening enjoy dinner at Canyonlands by Night. The experience features a cowboy-style Dutch oven meal followed by an evening Colorado River Cruise down the calm-water section of the river. The cruise guide will point out things of interest then as darkness settles the unique 40,000 watt natural light & narrated sound show begins on the illuminated canyon walls above the river.
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Day 6 - Friday, 5/2/2025 - Breakfast - Dinner Capitol Reef National Park
Depart on a scenic drive to Capitol Reef National Park, in Utah’s south-central desert. The area is an oasis of colorful sandstone cliffs, impressive domes, and soaring monoliths, and was designated a national park in 1971. Early inhabitants called it the “land of the sleeping rainbow” because of its beautiful contrasts: multi-colored sandstone surrounded by verdant riverbanks and arid desert vegetation. Stop at several points of interest including the Visitor Center. Later head north and arrive in Park City for an overnight stay. Park City is just a short drive from Salt Lake City, and home to two world-class ski resorts, film festivals and beautiful mountain scenery which draws visitors year-round. Enjoy a Farewell Dinner with your fellow travelers in Park City.
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Day 7 - Saturday, 5/3/2025 - Breakfast Return Home
Transfer to Salt Lake City for your flight home.
Note: This tour involves high altitude. |
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