California’s famous Highway 1 will reopen on Friday, a month after a partial collapse and road slip out near Big Sur forced it to close.
07.05.2024 - 18:50 / travelpulse.com / Bryce Canyon / North America / Kristen Hess
Goway announced on Monday that the company is expanding its luxury tour itineraries to include several of the most popular National Parks in the United States.
The new itineraries will offer tours of Utah's Mighty Five, which include the Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks.
Besides Utah, the new itineraries will also include Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park and Wyoming's Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
"You cannot put into words what it’s like to stare at some of those vistas,” Goway Reservations Manager Bryan Tutte said. “Sometimes, you feel as if you’re on Mars. I also saw dinosaur footprints and 1,000-year-old cave paintings. Other days, I felt as if I was in a Western movie.”
So far, the itineraries, which are guided from start to finish at the visitor's desired pace, include two variations of the eight-day Mighty Five itinerary: one that begins in Las Vegas and another that starts in Salt Lake City.
The new tours also include two six-day adventures: the Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Park itinerary and the Triple Canyon itinerary, which covers Utah’s Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks and Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park.
“Having the private guide at your beck-and-call all day long is amazing,” Tutte continued. “Guides will stop at places they know that you would never see on an escorted tour.”
“It’s also unlikely that you would see some of these spots if you were driving yourself,” Tutte concluded. “There are lots of little museums and other attractions on the way that most people would drive past without realizing it.”
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