Tour Code: 672-968

8-Day Yellowstone, Mt.Rushmore and Arches National Park Tour from Los Angeles / Las Vegas

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Start the tour following the route of San Bernardino Mountain and enter to Mojave Desert to the State of Nevada. After lunch, tour at Las Vegas Boulevard to see the beautiful decorative hotels and casinos, such as Mirage, MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Excalibur, New York - New York, Monte Carlo, Bellagio, Venetian, Paris and Wynn etc. Overnight at Cedar City.

For customers arrive in Las Vegas, please meet your tour guide in MGM Grand Hotel (west wing lobby) at 2:00pm.

After breakfast, we'll depart for Arches National Park, known for its more than 2000 naturally-formed sandstone arches, including the famous Delicate Arch, a symbol of Utah that appears on both license plates and postage stamps. Other natural monuments include the high point at Elephant Butte, as well as the sandstone fins known as “The Organ” and the “Tower of Babel”. Overnight stay in Grand Junction, CO.

We'll begin our day traveling through the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel, a four-lane vehicular tunnel that carries Interstate Highway 70 through the Colorado Rocky Mountains. At a height of 11,158 feet above sea level, it is one of the highest vehicular tunnels in the whole world. It is also the longest tunnel built as part of the Interstate Highway program. In the Denver area, we'll visit the Red Rocks, a naturally-formed amphitheater that hosts a number of yearly musical performance by famous artists and bands. After lunch, we’ll take a city tour of Denver, the state capital of Colorado, and pay a visit to the Coors Brewery, where you can have free sample of the beer before it is capped! Overnight stay in Denver.

We’ll leave Denver early to arrive in Wyoming in the morning, and pay a visit to Cheyenne, the state capital and thoroughly Western home of the cowboys and stockyards. Next, driving East, we’ll arrive at Mt. Rushmore in the afternoon, a mountain in the South Dakota Black Hills sculpted in the likeness of four of the nation’s most beloved former Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Next, we'll continue on to the Crazy Horse Memorial*, a mountain monument currently under construction, and dedicated to the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse. In the evening we'll visit the "Wild West" city of Deadwood, South Dakota, followed by an overnight stay at Lead.

Today, we'll take a tour of Devil's Tower National Monument, a monolithic rock formation that rises 1,267 feet above the surrounding land and was once the neck of an active volcano. This mysterious and haunting monument has been featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film by director Steven Spielberg and is a popular destination for rock climbers. In the afternoon, we'll drive on to Yellowstone National Park, where we'll spend the night.

Tours depart on 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/05, 5/12, 9/12, 9/26, 9/29, 10/03, 10/06 will overnight in West Yellowstone Lodge. All other departures are guaranteed stay inside Yellowstone.

We'll spend the first half of the day touring Yellowstone National Park, where we'll take in the beautiful scenery and visit geothermal hotspots such as the Old Faithful Geyser in this, the biggest wildlife reservation and most hallowed national park in the United States. After lunch, we'll depart for Grand Teton National Park, in the shadow of the Teton Range, which features nine different peaks reaching heights of 12,000 feet, including the tallest Grand Teton, which reaches 13,775 feet above sea level. After a day of seeing some of America's most scenic wonders, we'll arrive in Salt Lake City for a night's rest.

A morning tour of Salt Lake City will include visits to the Salt Lake City Temple, the spiritual home of the Mormon faith, the Utah State Capital, and the commercial centers of the city. Up next, we'll travel to the Great Salt Lake*, from which the nearby city takes its name, and where the salinity of water is seven times greater than that of the ocean. Later, we'll stop at the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine* and learn about operations at the largest producer of mined copper in history. Following that, we’ll make our return journey to Las Vegas, arriving in the early evening.

In the morning, visit the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory, where you can sample some of the Ethel M's Famous Chocolate. Later, take a relaxing stroll through the Botanical Cactus Gardens, a one-of-a-kind collection of Nevada’s native flora. Leaving Las Vegas at noon, we'll make our way back to California, arriving in Los Angeles in the evening for your return flight home.

Complimentary LAS/LAX airport drop-off is available upon request at least 3 days prior to departure; please arrange your flight to depart from LAS after 2:00pm or LAX after 9:30pm.