• 6 Dinner (D)
• 14 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Experience enhanced hygiene protocols to align with the latest guidance following COVID-19. All Travel Directors and Drivers have completed training in enhanced well-being and hygiene protocols.
• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
• We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.

• Grand Canyon National Park: Join your Local Expert, Canyon Tim, for an informative talk about the wonders of the Grand Canyon. With over seven years of experience in geology, you’ll learn about the origins of the five-million-year-old canyon, its rock formation and its current impact. You’ll also discover the local flora and fauna, and find out where you might be able to spot elk, mule deer, coyotes, grey foxes, bobcats and mountain lions.
• Black Hills: Visit Crazy Horse Memorial, which is dedicated to protecting and preserving the culture, tradition and living heritage of the Native American people. A special Insight Experience awaits as you are taken up to stand face-to-face with this impressive sculpture. Measuring 641 feet (195 metres) long and 563 feet (172 metres) high, the piece takes the record as the world’s largest mountain carving.

Insight Vacations

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• Premium regional accommodation

Meet your fellow travellers over a welcome dinner with wine at ZuZu, the restaurant at Scottsdale’s Hotel Valley Ho. The gathering offers a relaxed introduction to the group and to Arizona’s distinctive sense of place.

Named for a beloved member of the hotel’s founding family, ZuZu sits within a Scottsdale landmark known for its mid-century design. Its lively setting makes this first shared evening more than a routine hotel meal.

Travel the Red Rock Scenic Byway into Sedona, where rust-coloured sandstone formations frame a town of galleries and independent shops. Take in the striking contrast between sculpted desert rock and Sedona’s creative, contemporary character.

The scenic exploration also follows Oak Creek Canyon through Coconino National Forest. Here, a creek-cut gorge and wooded slopes reveal a greener side of northern Arizona’s landscape.

Discover the Grand Canyon’s South Rim with a Local Expert, looking across immense bands of exposed rock while learning how the Colorado River shaped the landscape. Hear about the canyon’s geology, its formations and the ways people have interacted with this place.

Your expert also introduces the plants and wildlife of the rim, from hardy desert vegetation to animals that inhabit its forests and cliffs. The interpretation gives depth to the panoramic views beyond their sheer scale.

Watch sunrise over the Grand Canyon if you rise early, as changing light picks out the South Rim’s ridges and ravines. Explore farther along Desert View Drive, with a stop at Desert View Point to look towards the Colorado River and Painted Desert.

See the Desert View Watchtower, designed by architect Mary Colter with inspiration from ancestral Puebloan structures. The viewpoint brings the canyon’s vast geography into focus, including lands extending towards Navajo and Hopi communities.

Explore Monument Valley with Navajo Local Experts aboard open-sided, all-terrain vehicles. This private off-road experience reaches beyond the main route, bringing you closer to the valley’s monumental buttes and mesas while your guides share Navajo history and living culture.

Enjoy a Navajo cookout lunch amid the sandstone formations. Guided interpretation and a shared meal make this a meaningful encounter with a landscape that is part of the Navajo Nation, not simply a cinematic backdrop.

Experience live Navajo performance at Red Heritage, a Navajo-owned performing arts theatre in Page. Over dinner and drinks, watch local performers share powwow dance, flute playing, songs and the resonant rhythms of live drums.

The evening offers a chance to engage with living Diné cultural expression through the artists who present it. Your visit supports a Native-owned venue dedicated to showcasing local talent and preserving performance traditions.

Explore Bryce Canyon National Park’s viewpoints, looking over natural amphitheatres crowded with slender red and orange hoodoos. Stops along the rim provide different perspectives on the formations, with time to walk near Sunset Point or choose a more demanding descent into the canyon.

The route through Bryce Canyon Country includes a stretch of Scenic Highway 89. At the park, erosion’s work across the Paunsaugunt Plateau is visible in cliffs, spires and sweeping high-desert vistas.

Tour Zion Canyon aboard a privately chartered open-air vehicle, with live commentary from a Local Expert. Look up at sheer sandstone walls and take in the canyon’s scenic features without needing to navigate its roads independently.

Carved by the Virgin River, Zion combines towering cliffs with a surprisingly lush canyon floor. The open-air perspective brings the scale and changing colours of its rock formations into sharp relief.

Choose a guided hike to Zion’s Emerald Pools to explore the canyon on foot. Follow trails towards pools and seasonal waterfalls set against sandstone walls, with a guide helping you appreciate the park’s natural features along the way.

This is the more active of two included Zion Insight Choice experiences. Water, rock and canyon vegetation create a close-up contrast to the grand views from the open-air vehicle tour; conditions at the pools vary with the season.

Choose a self-guided walk beside the Virgin River, taking a gentler approach to Zion’s canyon scenery while watching for wildlife. The riverside setting offers time to notice the water and vegetation beneath the park’s towering cliffs.

This included alternative to the Emerald Pools hike also features a visit to Zion’s nature centre. Discover how the park uses education and environmentally conscious design to encourage care for its distinctive landscape.

Explore historic Jackson Town Square and photograph its distinctive arches made from shed elk antlers. The square introduces a mountain town where Western heritage sits alongside galleries, boutiques and a view towards the Teton Range.

Elk naturally shed their antlers each year, making the arches a fitting local emblem. Time in the centre lets you take in Jackson’s Old West character without treating the town as merely a gateway to the national parks.

Travel through Grand Teton National Park beneath the sharply rising peaks of the Teton Range. Look across the mountain landscape and keep watch for wildlife, which may include moose, elk, bison or birds of prey.

Unlike many mountain ranges, the Tetons rise abruptly above the valley, creating an especially dramatic skyline. This scenic exploration highlights the park’s contrast of open valley and rugged peaks, with wildlife sightings always dependent on nature.

Walk with your Travel Director among Yellowstone’s geothermal features, seeing colourful hot springs, bubbling mud pots and steam rising from the ground. Watch for an eruption of Old Faithful, the park’s most recognised geyser.

Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872 and protects an exceptional concentration of geysers and other hydrothermal features. The informative stroll connects their striking colours and activity with the volcanic forces beneath this landscape.

Take in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, where the Yellowstone River cuts through colourful rock. Travel through Hayden Valley, scanning its broad grasslands and river margins for bison, elk and other wildlife.

These contrasting landscapes show Yellowstone beyond its geysers: one shaped by a powerful river, the other an important habitat for the park’s animals. Bears or wolves may be seen, although sightings cannot be guaranteed.

Explore the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, with collections covering Western art, firearms and natural history. The visit offers several perspectives on the American West and the legends associated with the town’s namesake.

Named for showman William F. Cody, the centre looks beyond frontier spectacle to the region’s people, environments and material culture. It is a substantial museum encounter with Western history amid a town closely tied to that heritage.

Experience an evening at the Ranch at UCross, beginning with cocktails in its historic Ranch House bar. Share a home-cooked, ranch-style dinner in a traditional Wyoming setting.

Gather around the fire pit for s’mores and live music, including country, folk and bluegrass. The hosted evening gives a more personal sense of ranch hospitality than a standard restaurant meal, with music and conversation extending the experience beyond the table.

Choose a scenic horseback ride with a Ranch Hand at Ucross Ranch. Riding through the Wyoming countryside offers a hands-on way to experience the open landscape and a pastime closely associated with working ranch life.

This is one of two included ranch activity choices. The guided ride provides a different perspective from sightseeing by coach, with time to take in the quiet, spacious surroundings at a horse’s pace.

Choose to try fishing at Ucross Ranch for a quieter, hands-on experience in the Wyoming countryside. The activity offers time outdoors in the ranch setting, with the pace set by the water rather than a sightseeing schedule.

Fishing is the alternative to the included horseback ride. It brings you into contact with ranch country’s slower rhythms and lets you enjoy the surrounding landscape while trying your hand at a traditional outdoor pastime.

Visit Devils Tower National Monument to see its striking rock columns rising above the surrounding landscape. Learn why this geological landmark holds sacred meaning for the Lakota and other Indigenous peoples.

The tower’s distinctive vertical form makes it one of the region’s most recognisable natural features. Understanding both its geology and its continuing cultural significance gives the visit meaning beyond a scenic photograph.

Experience Spearfish Canyon, a creek-carved gorge in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Look out for steep limestone walls, wooded slopes and the changing textures of a landscape favoured by wildlife enthusiasts.

The canyon offers a greener, more sheltered contrast to the high plains and exposed rock formations elsewhere on the journey. Its towering palisades and winding creek make the scenic passage an experience in its own right.

Explore Badlands National Park with a Local Expert, taking in sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and broad mixed-grass prairie. Interpretation reveals how the landscape formed and shares the Indigenous histories and perspectives connected to it.

The guided experience is designed to offer meaningful cultural insight alongside the park’s remarkable geology. Its layered scenery invites a closer look at a place shaped over millions of years and still significant to people today.

View the granite faces of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The memorial depicts Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on a scale that dominates the mountainside.

Seeing the carving in its setting offers a chance to consider both the ambition behind this twentieth-century monument and the importance of the Black Hills to Indigenous peoples. It is an iconic landmark with a complex setting.

Visit Crazy Horse Memorial, the vast mountain carving honouring the Lakota leader. An exclusive experience takes you up the mountain for a close-up view of the sculpture not available through general public access.

The memorial’s wider mission is to preserve and share Native American culture, traditions and living heritage. Seeing the ongoing carving at close range reveals the scale of the work while adding context to its purpose.

Choose an aerial tour over the Grand Canyon by helicopter or fixed-wing plane. From above, take in the canyon’s immense breadth and the patterns of its ridges, rock layers and deep-cut valleys.

The elevated viewpoint offers a perspective distinct from the South Rim’s overlooks, making the scale of this landscape easier to grasp. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour; flight availability and conditions may affect the experience.

Float gently along the Colorado River near Page, taking in canyon scenery from the water. The proposed route passes sights such as Horseshoe Bend and Petroglyph Beach, offering a low-key way to experience the river’s sculpted surroundings.

From river level, the rock walls and broad bends feel different from their familiar viewpoints above. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, subject to availability and operating conditions.

Explore Antelope Canyon with a Navajo (Diné) guide near Page. Walk through its narrow sandstone passages and look for shifting light that reveals the smooth curves and warm colours of the canyon walls.

Guided access offers an opportunity to learn about this distinctive landscape on Navajo land while seeing it at close quarters. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour; access depends on availability and local conditions.

Take a scenic float down the Snake River within Grand Teton National Park. From the water, enjoy a quieter perspective on the valley and its mountain backdrop while watching the riverbanks for wildlife.

The river setting provides a contrast to viewing the Tetons by road, with the peaks rising above the surrounding landscape. This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. A signed waiver is required, and operation is subject to conditions.