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5-Day Las Vegas, Nevada/Colorado/Arizona/Utah
National Park Tour
This tour is a classic, but a very fast,
5-day southern Utah tour that begins and ends in Las Vegas,
Nevada. The itinerary includes each of the five National Parks,
Monument Valley, part of the Navajo Nation, Ancient Puebloan (Anasazi)
Indians to the Mormon settlements, and beautiful scenery and
State Parks along the way.
Day 1 - Las Vegas to Bryce Canyon National
Park
Spend 3 hours traveling from Las
Vegas, Nev. to the entrance of Zion National Park
Travel through the scenic wonders of
Zion National Park on to Bryce Canyon National Park via the
Scenic Byway 12 "All-American Road" (approximately 1-1/2
hours)
Enjoy the giant amphitheaters with
millions of pink rock pinnacles in Bryce Canyon National
Park
Dinner at one of the local restaurants
Overnight at or near Bryce Canyon
National Park
Day 2 - Bryce Canyon/Capitol Reef/Canyonlands
National Parks
Continue traveling the "All-American
Road" to Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, home to
large specimens of petrified wood and dinosaur fossils
Rest stop at the Anasazi Indian
Village State Park at Boulder
Proceed north to the rugged landscape
of Capitol Reef National Park, hideout for the infamous
Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch
Travel 3-1/2 hours to Canyonlands
National Park (Moab)
Dinner at local eatery in downtown
Moab
Overnight in Moab
Day 3 - Arches National Park/Mesa Verde
National Park
Morning tour of Arches National Park,
the world’s largest concentration of natural stone arches
Travel through Monticello to view
Horse Head Peak and continue on to Cortez, Co.
(approximately 2-1/2 hours)
While in Cortez take a side trip to
Mesa Verde National Park, one of the world’s most well-known
archaeological sites (approximately ½ hour)
Dinner at the Far View Lodge in Mesa
Verde National Park
Overnight in Cortez
Day 4 - Cortez/Four State Corners/Lake
Powell/Page (Glen Canyon National Recreation Area)
Drive an hour to Four State Corners
(only point in U.S. common to 4 state corners)
Side trip to Bluff, through the Navajo
Indian Reservation to view Monument Valley
Travel 2-1/2 hours to surrealistic
landscapes of buttes, and peaks of Lake Powell/Page
Dinner cruise Lake Powell as the sun
sets, casting a dramatic color transformation on the red
rock canyons surrounding the Lake
Overnight in Lake Powell/Page
Day 5 - Grand Canyon South Rim/Las Vegas
Travel 3 hours to see the grandeur of
the Grand Canyon South Rim
After a short visit to the South Rim
return to Las Vegas (approximately 4 hours)
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