• 4 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Zion National Park: Unlock geological history as you walk the paths and trails of Zion National Park, following in the footsteps of Native Americans and the earliest pioneers. The lush vegetation, wild rivers, roaring waterfalls and towering cliffs of this park will have you reaching for your camera over and over again.
• Salt Lake City: Get ready for the key features and local secrets of Utah’s capital on an orientation tour with your Travel Director. Check out its Mormon center and Temple Square as you delve into the past of its Mormon settlers.
• Bryce Canyon National Park: Hello, hoodoos. As you arrive at Bryce Canyon National Park, enjoy seeing the pink, orange and rusty-red limestone spires, known as hoodoos, rise up from the valley floor. Explore the visitor center to learn more about the history and geology of the park before a scenic drive along Bryce Canyon Road with possible stops at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point and Inspiration Point. You’ll love seeing how Bryce Canyon, home to the largest collection of these spires in the world, is in a league of its own.
• Jackson: Spend the afternoon exploring the charming cowboy town of Jackson, WY. Stroll through the antler archways at Jackson Town Square before heading to the famed Million Dollar Cowboy Bar and grab a seat on a horse saddle. Walk through local art galleries and boutique shops to find the perfect souvenir.
• Grand Teton National Park: Head to Grand Teton National Park for sightseeing of its alpine landscapes featuring eight peaks towering 12,000 feet above. At the Craig Thomas Visitor Centre, gaze out at the Teton Range rising above. Inside the Centre, explore the themes of place, people, preservation, mountaineering and Native Americans as you contemplate the past and future of this park. With your Travel Director enhancing your visit through narrative, drive by Jenny Lake, a glacier-carved lake at the base of the Teton Mountains.
• Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone National Park. A bucket list destination and a must-see icon. Established as America’s first National Park by President Grant in 1872, Yellowstone is famous for its hot springs, bubbling mud pots, vast canyons and lush forests and a variety of terrain including alpine mountains, prairies, valleys and waterfalls as well as a diversity of nature including the hydrothermal features. Explore the Southern Loop of Yellowstone with your Travel Director who shows you the must-sees and highlights, paired with background information of this huge, ever-changing national park. See the splendour of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, keep an eye out for bison in Hayden Valley, and witness Old Faithful blow off some steam.
• Cody: Visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a museum complex in Cody with five museums under one roof. You’ll explore Plains Indian cultures, view original works by artists like Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, examine historic firearms, and learn about the life and legacy of Buffalo Bill — the scout, showman and town founder.
• Little Big Horn: There’s no better place to learn about the Battle of Little Bighorn than visiting the famous historical site itself. Explore the Visitor Centre to get oriented with the history of Custer’s Last Stand. With your Travel Director driving along Battlefield Tour Road where General Custer and his men were roundly defeated by combined forces of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal warriors in 1876, feel echoes of the past come alive on this one-of-a-kind experience. 
• 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.
• Mount Rushmore: The grand faces of Mount Rushmore National Memorial await. View the faces of four of America’s most important presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt – dramatically etched into the granite rock. Mount Rushmore tells the story of the birth, growth, development and preservation of the United States. From the history of the first inhabitants to the diversity of America today, visitors will come face to face (literally) with the rich heritage we all share. 

• Deluxe coach travel
• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• Standard regional accommodation

Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Salt Lake City, taking in Temple Square and the centre of Utah’s capital. Hear how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established a settlement in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Discover the story of the Mormon pioneers alongside the city’s present-day character. The visit connects Salt Lake City’s religious and architectural heritage with the lively streets, cafés and businesses of a modern state capital.

Visit Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and its visitor centre to learn about the 1876 battle between US Army forces and Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. Travel along Battlefield Tour Road with commentary from your Travel Director.

The site commemorates those who fought and died here, including members of the 7th Cavalry and the Native nations defending their way of life. Seeing the terrain gives this complex chapter of American history a powerful sense of place.

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Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over a welcome dinner in Las Vegas. Share a meal and get acquainted with the people joining your journey through the American West.

Beyond the city’s bright lights lie the red-rock landscapes, mountain ranges and national parks at the heart of this tour. The dinner offers a convivial introduction to the region and a chance to hear what the journey holds.

Explore Zion National Park beneath towering cliffs banded in cream, pink and red. Travel through the canyon landscape, with opportunities to appreciate its rock formations, vegetation and the course of the Virgin River.

The river has helped carve this landscape over millions of years, while Indigenous peoples and later settlers have long known its paths. Look up at Zion’s sheer sandstone walls to grasp the scale that makes this Utah park so distinctive.

Discover Bryce Canyon’s hoodoos, slender limestone spires in shades of orange, pink and rusty red. Explore the visitor centre to learn about the park’s geology, and take in the formations on a scenic drive along Bryce Canyon Road.

Possible viewpoint stops include Sunrise Point, Sunset Point and Inspiration Point. Water and frost have shaped the rock into one of the world’s largest concentrations of hoodoos, creating a landscape that changes character with the light.

Explore Jackson’s Town Square beneath its distinctive arches made from shed elk antlers. Spend time in this Wyoming mountain town, where galleries, shops and Western-style saloons sit within sight of the Teton Range.

Jackson’s ranching roots remain visible alongside its contemporary outdoor culture. A stroll around the square offers a close-up look at that blend of Old West character and mountain-town life, rather than simply a view from the road.

Discover Grand Teton National Park with your Travel Director, taking in the Teton Range and the glacier-carved landscape around Jenny Lake. At the Craig Thomas Visitor Center, look out towards the peaks and explore exhibits about the park’s people, wildlife and preservation.

See the mountains rise sharply above the valley floor, a defining feature of this Wyoming landscape. Your Travel Director’s commentary adds context to the park’s Indigenous history, mountaineering heritage and protected alpine environment.

Explore Yellowstone with your Travel Director, visiting highlights that include Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake and a geyser basin of steaming vents, bubbling mud pots and hot springs. Watch for wildlife as you travel through the park’s varied terrain.

At Artist Point, view the Lower Falls plunging into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Established in 1872 as the first US national park, Yellowstone protects an extraordinary concentration of geothermal features alongside forests, valleys and waterways.

Visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, a complex bringing five museums together in one place. Explore exhibits on Plains Indian cultures, Western art, historic firearms and the natural world of the Greater Yellowstone region.

Learn about William F. Cody, the scout and showman known as Buffalo Bill, and examine how stories of the American West have been told. Works by artists including Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell add another perspective on the region’s history.

Meet beef advocate Chaley Harney and local chef Stephen Hindman at the historic Billings Depot. Hear how the arrival of the railroad shaped Montana’s cattle industry, and enjoy a three-course meal featuring locally sourced beef, paired with regional beer and wine.

The depot provides a fitting setting for stories of ranching and rail travel. This hosted dining experience connects the food on the table with the people and working traditions of Montana’s cattle country.

Visit the base of Crazy Horse Memorial with a Local Specialist for a close view of the vast mountain carving in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Hear about the memorial’s origins and the continuing work on its depiction of the Oglala Lakota leader on horseback.

Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear commissioned sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to begin the project in 1948. The unfinished monument invites reflection on Native American history, representation and the generations committed to its creation.

View Mount Rushmore National Memorial and photograph the four presidential faces carved into the granite of the Black Hills: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The viewing area offers a clear perspective on the sculpture’s immense scale.

Completed in 1941, the memorial reflects a particular telling of US history through its choice of presidents. A visit also places the monument within the Black Hills, a landscape of profound significance to Lakota people.

Meet Stephen Yellowhawk in Rapid City for an evening of dance, song and personal storytelling. Hear him share family and tribal history, cultural traditions and the meaning behind his work as a performer.

Raised by grandparents from Lakota and Onondaga Iroquois backgrounds, Stephen has spent more than two decades sharing Native American culture through performance. This hosted encounter offers a personal perspective on living traditions and supports efforts to reduce inequalities.

Enjoy live country music with the Bryce Canyon Wranglers at Ebenezer’s Barn & Grill, accompanied by a BBQ dinner. The performance brings a lively Western soundtrack to an evening near Bryce Canyon.

Country songs, a shared meal and the barn-style setting offer a different way to experience the region beyond its national-park scenery. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Float gently along the Snake River with a guide in Grand Teton National Park. Take in views of the Teton Range from the water and watch the riverbanks for wildlife as your guide explains the park’s natural environment.

The unhurried pace offers a different perspective on this mountain landscape, where the river winds through a broad valley beneath steep peaks. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

See Mount Rushmore illuminated at night during an evening visit with a Park Ranger. Watch the carved faces emerge from the darkness as lighting draws attention to the granite sculpture above the memorial grounds.

The evening setting gives this familiar landmark a quieter, more dramatic character than a daytime viewing. Ranger-led context adds depth to the experience. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore Badlands National Park, where sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires rise beside South Dakota’s mixed-grass prairie. Take in the layered rock formations and wide-open views of this strikingly sculpted landscape.

The park’s sedimentary layers reveal a long geological history, while its prairie protects a habitat distinct from the Black Hills. This optional excursion offers a contrasting view of the region and is at additional cost and bookable on tour.