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Get up close and personal with some of southern Utah’s most spectacular slot canyons—and go for a thrilling all-terrain-vehicle ride through the region’s dramatic landscapes—on this small-group tour. Meet your guide in Mount Carmel before heading into nature. This trip begins and ends at 15 E State St, in Orderville, Utah. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

You’ll get to explore two different canyons, with plenty of time for photo breaks. Owing to the ease of the trails, kids and less active visitors are welcome to participate. This tour lasts about two hours and costs $99.00.

• This tour takes all the hassle out of planning a trip into nature
• Visit two Utah slot canyons, and take an ATV ride through the landscapes
• This small-group tour is capped at just five people for a personal experience
• Pick from morning or afternoon start times to suit your schedule

Our guide will transport you on a thrilling UTV ride to the mouth of 2 separate slot canyons. You will then hike into the slots and experience both canyons with towering walls at an arm’s length. This mild tour is perfect for families with little ones and people who are not physically able to climb over rocks. In fall and winter months, be prepared for cold weather! Make sure you bring hats, gloves, coats, etc. to keep you warm while you enjoy the tour. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

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Hit the dusty trail on a 4×4 tour of Canyonlands National Park. Expert guides will take you to see the highlights of Utah’s Chesler Park such as Elephant Hill, Devil’s Lane, and Devil’s Kitchen. There’s also the option to take a 3-mile (4.8-km) hike on the spectacularly scenic Joint Trail. This full-day adventure is the perfect way to experience Utah’s backcountry away from the crowds. This trip begins and ends at 321 N Main St, in Moab, Utah. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

• Full-day tour to Chesler Park in Canyonlands National Park’s Needles District, from Moab
• Access beautiful backcountry by 4WD with an experienced guide
• Go off-road on some of the most challenging tracks in southeastern Utah
• Learn from your guide about the geology, wildlife and history of Chesler Park
• Take an optional hike on the Joint Trail that leads through a beautiful red rock landscape
• Includes lunch, water, lemonade and transport by 4WD
• NAVTEC Expeditions is an authorized concessionaire of Canyonlands and Arches National Park

  

This tour of Canyonlands National Park begins in the middle of Moab, where you’ll meet your guides and hop in the comfortable 4×4 off-road vehicle. The drive to the Chesler Park area is approximately two hours, as it’s located out in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. The reward for the lengthy drive, however, is sweeping vistas of desert landscapes you’d expect to see in brochures, where multicolored rock formations emerge from the sun-scorched earth. You’ll explore the ancient rock formations and weave through the cactus, looking for wildlife like mule deer, lizards, or herds of bighorn sheep. At Elephant Hill, watch as your guide skillfully maneuvers what’s known as one of Utah’s most challenging 4×4 trails. You’ll pass Devil’s Kitchen and Devil’s Lane before emerging at SOB Hill. Towards the middle of the day, you’ll enjoy a tasty, buffet-style lunch at a panoramic viewpoint, and then be given the option of hiking along the dusty Joint Trail. The 3-mile (4.8km) loop leads towards the Chesler Park meadows, which are often considered as one of the park’s most spectacularly scenic spots. The trail itself weaves through towering boulders and an intriguing network of canyons, and even though the path is well groomed and the trail is well defined, it’s still a hike that’s sufficiently challenging for even the most experienced of hikers. If you’d prefer to skip the Joint Trail hike, you’re allowed more time to photograph the views surrounding your scenic lunch spot, before continuing on in the 4×4 vehicle to remote sections of the park. At the end of the day, having scoured the furthest and most isolated corners of Canyonlands National Park, your guide drops you off in the middle of Moab from where the tour began. This trip takes about 10 hours and costs $353.19.

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The Bonneville Salt Flats is like nothing else you have or probably will ever experience. The Salt is left over from a prehistoric salt water lake called Lake Bonneville, that covered much of the Utah and Nevada desert. As climates changed and the lake dried up, a large bed of salt remained. For more information or to book this trip, click here.

The salt flats are a very popular tourist destination, where many come from around the world to see the sunset and take pictures of the otherworldly landscape. The Salt Flats are probably most famous for the speed races that take place there. Nearly all the land speed records held in the planet have been set or broken at the Bonneville Salt Flats. To reach the Salt Flats, we travel 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, close the Nevada border. Salt Flats gets covered in water during the winter months.

Travelers will be picked up from the specified location in Salt Lake City, and will be driven to the Bonneville Salt Flats near the Nevada boarder. On the way we will stop by the Tree of Life sculpture, where travelers can choose to take pictures if they would like. Upon leaving the sculpture, we will make our way to the Salt Flats, where travelers can spend their time taking pictures, walking the salt flats, etc. The travel out and back is about 100 miles and will take roughly 1.5 hours each way. This trip lasts about 3 and a half hours and costs $160.00.

Metaphor – The Tree of Utah, sometimes called the Tree of Life, is an 87-foot-tall sculpture that was created by the Swedish artist Karl Momen in the 1980s and dedicated in 1986. The sculpture, which is constructed mainly of concrete, consists of a squarish ‘trunk’ holding up six spheres that are coated with natural rock and minerals native to Utah. There are also several hollow sphere segments on the ground around the base. The sculpture currently has a fence surrounding the base to protect people from falling tiles. Inscribed on the plaque are the words from Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller; also used as the chorus of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It has been said that Momen was moved to create the 87-foot-tall (27 m) tree after having a vision of a tree while driving across the desolate Bonneville Salt Flats. Following the dedication of this work of art, Momen donated the sculpture to the State of Utah and returned to Sweden. For more information or to book this trip, click here.

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This outdoor adventure combo from Moab takes you off-roading through Canyonlands National Park, followed by a guided rafting trip on the Colorado River. Your guide introduces you to the scenic natural wonders of Canyonlands’ Island in the Sky by 4-wheel drive (4WD), including sections of the Shafer Trail and White Rim Road. This trip begins and ends at 321 N Main St, in Moab, Utah. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

Enjoy a buffet lunch before an afternoon rafting the white-water rapids of the mighty river. Admire deep canyons, ancient rock art, fossils and natural stone arches on this day trip, great for all ages. This trip lasts about 8 hours and costs $264.63.

• Go off-roading on the White Rim Road and Shafer Trail
• Explore the scenic mesa of the Island in the Sky district
• Soak up the river scenery in the Fisher Towers area
• Includes transportation by 4WD, whitewater rafting, river gear and a buffet lunch by the riverside NAVTEC
• Expeditions is an authorized concessionaire of Canyonlands and Arches National Park

  

Meet your guide in central Moab to start the first portion of your combo adventure, a 4-hour tour of Canyonlands National Park by 4WD. Hop into the vehicle for a thrilling morning drive over rugged terrain to the Island in the Sky. From here, your guide traverses switchbacks to White Rim Road, a 100-mile loop situated roughly 1,000 feet below the mesa and the same distance above the Colorado and Green rivers. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

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Experience the backcountry of Southern Utah with a local guide to show you the way. This adventure includes two intriguing slot canyons—one features water, the other has a 200-foot drop and the remnants of an old truck that slipped between the rocks years ago. This trip begins and ends at 25 W Center St, in Cannonville, Utah. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

We’ll also explore the edge of Bryce Canyon through the Escalante Staircase. Be prepared to walk about 2 miles on this tour, which is open to everyone. This tour lasts about 4 hours and costs $175.00.

• Explore two unique slot canyons in southern Utah
• Discover the wonders of Grand Escalante Staircase
• Tour can be customized upon request
• Walk through a landscape of hoodoos and red rock canyons

Willis Creek Slot Canyon with beautiful water features and amazing curves. Then explore hoodoos and unique features around the side canyons. We will see a 200 ft deep slot with a truck smashed in the walls. Cannonville is located in the beautiful backdrop of the Grand Staircase National Monument. We will be driving to locations that will take about an 1 hour and 45 mins. For more information or to book this activity, click here.

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