View Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are carved into Black Hills granite. See the monumental sculpture against its forested mountain setting.

Each presidential face is approximately 60 feet high. The memorial’s scale invites a closer look at how a vast stone carving was conceived and made, while its location offers a point of reflection on the region’s layered history.

Join optional Badlands National Park sightseeing to discover a South Dakota landscape of sharply eroded ridges, layered rock and open prairie. View the unusual formations while learning about the geology of this expansive protected area.

Its bands of sediment record changing ancient environments, and erosion continues to reshape the terrain. The Badlands offer a striking visual contrast to the forested Black Hills. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Experience this amazing UNESCO World Heritage Site
• breakfast at Charly’s Pub and Grill which welcomed many famous people and presidents
• Explore in an open-air vehicle tour with a Navajo Local Specialist
• See the second largest man-made lake in the U.S.
• See gorgeous canyon country
• Marvel at the Multi-colored hoodoos
• Walk among the giant elk antler arches
• Explore this popular destination for hiking, camping and fishing
• Visit the first U.S National Park
• Witness the towering memorial for all Native American tribes
• Gaze at the faces of four U.S. presidents

• Deluxe coach travel
• Selected hotel dinners, with optional meals to purchase
• 3-star stays

• Las Vegas: Route 66, home to many Americana landmarks, museums and icons from the bygone days. On your journey along this historic route, stop at Kingman and Seligman – noteworthy towns on Route 66. Learn how although it only existed between 1926 and 1985, Route 66 has become a symbol of the American dream of adventurers and migrants who sought opportunities out west.
• Grand Canyon National Park: One of the seven natural wonders of the world and the second most visited national park in the United States. Explore the Visitor Center and get familiar with the history of the Grand Canyon, grab a coffee at a local cafe and take a walk along the Rim Trail. Keep your camera on-hand as you explore some of the 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent canyonlands at one of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world with unmatched vistas along its rim.
• Monument Valley: Immerse yourself in the landscape of the Navajo people journeying through the desert to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Get a feel for the land and its people climbing aboard an open-air, all-terrain vehicle to explore the valley with your Navajo guide as you pass its towering sandstone buttes and mesas, many of which have been featured in prominent Western films including John Wayne’s ‘Stagecoach’. Your exclusive Navajo Tribal Park tour with a Navajo guide helps preserve the integrity of the land and culture. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.
• Zion National Park: Follow hiking trails beside the Virgin River or venture into The Narrows, where canyon walls rise high above the water. Capture Zion’s towering rock formations on camera and take in the scale of Zion Canyon as you explore more of its namesake National Park.
• Bryce Canyon National Park: In Bryce Canyon National Park, you follow juniper-lined trails towards viewpoints along the rim of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, where rose, orange and cream hoodoos spill across vast natural amphitheatres below. Shaped by millions of years of freezing and thawing, slender spires, scalloped ridges and shadowed folds of rock stretch away through the canyon.
• Yellowstone National Park: Experience Yellowstone National Park, a place of dramatic landscapes, wildlife and geothermal activity. As you travel through the park, look out for bison, elk and hot springs, all part of the world’s first national park. 
• Black Hills: Unlock the history of Crazy Horse Memorial. Learn how construction began in 1948 after Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, commissioned Korczak Ziolkowski, who worked on construction of Mount Rushmore. While the original idea was to carve a face into rock like Mount Rushmore, the monument will ultimately have a full body and horse. There is no completion date yet, but the face of Crazy Horse was completed in 1998 at 87 feet 6 inches (26.7 m) high.

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Explore historic Route 66 with stops in Kingman and Seligman, Arizona. Look for vintage signs, roadside businesses and the small-town streets that keep the highway’s mid-century character visible.

Established in 1926, Route 66 became a path west for migrants and holidaymakers alike. These towns offer a tangible introduction to the roadside culture of the American West, beyond the scenery seen from the coach.

Explore Grand Canyon National Park from its South Rim, with time at the Visitor Center and a walk along the Rim Trail. View the layered canyon walls and the vast landscape carved by the Colorado River.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site exposes an immense record of Earth’s geological history. The changing light reveals different colours and contours across the rock, making even a short walk along the rim a rewarding way to appreciate its scale.

Visit Grand Canyon Village, the historic hub on the canyon’s South Rim. Take in the views while exploring an area shaped by generations of visitors, park workers and the development of travel to this remote landscape.

The village brings a human perspective to the canyon’s immense scale. Its rim-side setting offers further opportunities to pause at viewpoints and see how the light picks out the canyon’s ridges and deep tributaries.

Enjoy breakfast at Charly’s Pub & Grill, set within one of Flagstaff’s oldest hotels. The historic setting makes this included meal more than a routine start to the morning.

The hotel has welcomed notable guests, including presidents, over its long history. Dining here offers a glimpse of Flagstaff’s railroad-era hospitality and the town’s enduring role as a gateway to the landscapes of northern Arizona.

Explore Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in an open-air vehicle with a Navajo Local Specialist. Travel among sandstone buttes and mesas while hearing about the landscape’s geology, history and living cultural significance.

The formations are familiar from classic Western films, but this Navajo-guided experience places them within the perspective of the people whose homeland this is. The visit supports local cultural preservation and is identified by the operator as a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience.

Explore Zion National Park on its trails and take in views of the Virgin River, pale and red cliffs, and towering rock formations. Walking opportunities let you experience the canyon’s scale at ground level, with plenty to capture on camera.

The river has helped shape this landscape over millions of years. Against the sandstone walls, riverside vegetation and seasonal wildflowers reveal a striking contrast between desert geology and pockets of green.

Walk juniper-lined trails towards viewpoints in Bryce Canyon National Park. From the rim of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, look across natural amphitheatres crowded with rose, orange and cream hoodoos.

These slender rock spires owe much of their shape to repeated freezing and thawing. The elevated viewpoints make the pattern of ridges, shadows and individual formations especially clear, offering a landscape quite different from Zion’s broad canyon walls.

See Temple Square on a drive through Salt Lake City. This prominent city landmark provides an introduction to the Utah capital and the history that shaped its distinctive centre.

The square is closely associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the city’s nineteenth-century founding. This is a drive-by sightseeing experience, rather than a guided visit inside its buildings.

Stroll around Jackson Town Square and see its distinctive elk antler arches. The compact square offers an easy introduction to this Wyoming mountain town and its connection to the surrounding wilderness.

The arches are built from naturally shed antlers gathered in the region. Their sculptural form reflects the importance of elk to the nearby ecosystem, while Jackson’s streets evoke its long-standing role as a gateway to Grand Teton National Park.

Experience Grand Teton National Park, where the Teton Range rises sharply above the valley. Follow the Snake River corridor through forest and mountain scenery, taking in the park’s dramatic skyline.

The mountains’ steep profile makes them one of the American West’s most recognisable landscapes. Riverbanks and open valley views give you a sense of the varied terrain that supports the park’s wildlife and draws visitors to its trails, lakes and waterways.

Explore Yellowstone National Park and seek out its geothermal sights, including the celebrated Old Faithful geyser. Hot springs and bubbling mud pots reveal the volcanic activity beneath this landscape; keep watch for wildlife from appropriate distances.

Established in 1872, Yellowstone is widely recognised as the world’s first national park. Its mix of forests, thermal areas and free-roaming animals makes the visit as much about a living ecosystem as its famous eruptions.

See two contrasting Yellowstone landmarks: the tiered terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs and the colourful walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Both reveal the forces that continue to shape the park.

At Mammoth, mineral-rich water builds shifting limestone formations. At the canyon, rock in shades of yellow, red and pink lines a deep passage cut by the Yellowstone River. Together, the sites show the park’s remarkable geological variety.

Visit Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana, the site of the 1876 battle between the US Army’s 7th Cavalry and Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. The landscape offers a setting in which to consider the people and events involved.

The battle remains a significant chapter in the history of Indigenous resistance and US westward expansion. A visit here adds essential historical context to the Northern Plains beyond its open scenery.

Visit the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota’s Black Hills and the nearby Indian Museum of North America. See the immense mountain carving in progress and explore displays relating to Native American peoples and cultures.

Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear commissioned the memorial, and carving began in 1948. Its unfinished form is part of the experience: the project continues to honour Crazy Horse while prompting reflection on Native American history and representation.

Take an optional helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon for an aerial view of its North and South Rim landscapes. From above, see the canyon’s branching contours and immense depth from a perspective unavailable on the rim trails.

The flight brings the scale of the Colorado River’s carved landscape into focus. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; availability and flight conditions may affect the opportunity to take part.

Experience an optional chuckwagon dinner and show at Ebenezer’s near Bryce Canyon. Share a Western-style meal while enjoying live entertainment in a setting that draws on the region’s cowboy traditions.

Chuckwagon gatherings recall the communal meals associated with cattle-drive life, reimagined here as an evening performance. It offers a social, music-filled contrast to the national parks’ quiet viewpoints. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Visit the optional Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Explore museum collections devoted to the American West, from its art and natural history to the life and legacy of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody.

The centre offers a deeper look at a region often encountered through its dramatic scenery and frontier imagery. Its exhibits provide context for the people, cultures and environments behind those stories. This visit is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Choose an optional evening visit to Mount Rushmore and see the presidential carvings in a different light. Hear from a National Park ranger about the memorial and the national stories it was designed to express.

The ranger-led perspective adds context to the monument’s scale and symbolism, while an evening setting changes the atmosphere of the granite hillside. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.