Join an optional sightseeing visit to Badlands National Park to see its sharply eroded ridges, layered rock and open prairie. Viewpoints reveal a landscape of narrow spires and broad bands of sediment that looks markedly different from the Black Hills.

The park protects both striking geology and grassland habitat. Learning how erosion shaped these formations adds depth to the scenery. 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-coloured 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 towns known for roadside signs, vintage storefronts and Americana. See how the old highway’s character survives in the places that welcomed generations of westbound travellers.

Established in 1926, Route 66 became a symbol of migration, road trips and opportunity in the American West. These stops offer a tangible glimpse of the culture behind its enduring reputation.

Discover Grand Canyon National Park from its South Rim, where viewpoints reveal immense layers of rock cut by the Colorado River. Explore the Visitor Center, spend time at Grand Canyon Village and walk a stretch of the Rim Trail for changing perspectives across the canyon.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site records a vast span of geological history in its exposed cliffs. The scale is especially striking from the rim, where distant buttes and the river’s course come into view.

Enjoy breakfast at Charly’s Pub & Grill, set inside Flagstaff’s historic Weatherford Hotel. The setting makes this included meal more than a routine breakfast: you can take in the character of a long-standing downtown landmark before exploring the landscapes of northern Arizona.

Opened in 1900, the Weatherford has hosted notable visitors, including presidents. Its place in Flagstaff’s history offers a glimpse of the town’s life as a railroad and Route 66 stop.

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 and its significance to the Navajo people.

The red-rock formations are familiar from Western films, including Stagecoach, but a local guide brings the living culture of the valley into focus. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience supports the community whose homeland you are visiting.

Explore Zion National Park on foot, choosing from trails that reveal red-and-white cliffs, canyon scenery and views of the Virgin River. Keep your camera ready for the contrast between sheer sandstone walls and the greenery along the canyon floor.

Water has shaped this dramatic landscape over millions of years. Time in the park lets you experience its scale at ground level, whether you favour a gentle walk or a closer look at its rock formations.

Walk towards viewpoints along the Paunsaugunt Plateau rim in Bryce Canyon National Park. Below, rose, orange and cream hoodoos crowd vast natural amphitheatres, their shapes and colours shifting with the light.

Despite its name, Bryce is a series of amphitheatres rather than a single canyon. Repeated freezing and thawing have helped sculpt its slender spires and ridges, making the rim an exceptional place to see erosion’s intricate work.

See Temple Square on a drive through Salt Lake City, taking in the best-known landmark of Utah’s capital. This is a passing view rather than an interior visit, offering an introduction to the city’s distinctive history and streetscape.

The square has been central to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since the city’s nineteenth-century founding. Its prominent buildings remain an important reference point for understanding Salt Lake City.

Stroll through Jackson Town Square beneath its elk-antler arches and experience Grand Teton National Park, where the Teton Range rises sharply above forests and valley floor. The journey through this landscape follows the Snake River amid expansive mountain scenery.

Jackson’s arches are built from antlers naturally shed by elk. In the national park, the mountains’ steep profile gives the valley a character quite different from the canyon country elsewhere on the tour.

Explore Yellowstone National Park, looking out for hot springs, bubbling mud pots and wildlife such as bison and elk. Visit Old Faithful, the celebrated geyser whose recurring eruptions make it one of the park’s most recognisable sights.

Established in 1872, Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. Its geothermal features offer visible evidence of the volcanic forces beneath the landscape; wildlife sightings are possible but, as with any wild animals, cannot be guaranteed.

Visit two contrasting Yellowstone landmarks: the stepped mineral terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs and the colourful cliffs of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. See how geothermal water builds pale, shifting formations at Mammoth while the Yellowstone River cuts through the canyon.

The terraces continually change as water finds new paths through limestone. At the canyon, yellow, red and pink rock gives this part of the world’s first national park its own dramatic palette.

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. Consider the events and people connected with this consequential place.

The battlefield preserves a chapter of the Plains tribes’ resistance to US expansion. Seeing the open landscape helps put the battle in geographical context while inviting reflection on its wider history and lasting significance.

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

Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear commissioned the memorial, and carving began in 1948. Its unfinished scale makes the visit distinctive, while the museum adds cultural context beyond the monument itself.

Gaze up at the granite faces of four US presidents at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills. View the carvings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, each approximately 60 feet tall.

Carved between 1927 and 1941, the memorial is one of the country’s most recognisable landmarks. Its setting also carries a broader history: the Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota people, giving the visit an important cultural dimension.

Take an optional helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon for an aerial perspective on its layered cliffs and immense depth. The advertised flight takes in views associated with the North and South Rims, revealing the scale of the landscape in a way that differs from a rim walk.

From above, the canyon’s tributaries and rock formations form a striking pattern across the plateau. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; flight details are subject to local arrangements.

Choose a chuckwagon dinner and show at Ebenezer’s near Bryce Canyon for an evening inspired by the American West. Share a hearty meal while enjoying live entertainment in a setting designed around cowboy hospitality.

Chuckwagon suppers recall the mobile kitchens that served cattle-driving crews, though today’s version is a hosted night out rather than a historical re-enactment. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody on an optional visit. Its museums examine subjects including Plains Indian cultures, Western art, regional natural history and the life of showman William F. Cody.

The breadth of the collections offers a deeper look at the varied people and environments behind familiar images of the American West. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Choose an evening visit to Mount Rushmore for a different view of the presidential carvings and an opportunity to learn from a National Park ranger. The setting gives you time to consider the monument beyond its familiar daytime image.

Ranger interpretation explores the memorial and the stories associated with it. This is an optional experience at additional cost and bookable on tour; the evening programme depends on local availability.