You’ll Enjoy the Bryce Canyon Tour
This is a land that abounds in mysterious and remarkable formations of rich, red rock. In addition, Zion’s dramatic sheer marbled cliffs are an unforgettable sight to behold. As a result, Bryce Canyon is an extraordinary sight. Hence, the Bryce Canyon Tour is special highlight in the traveler’s journey. The views are truly breathtaking. We’ll surround you with the pinnacles and extraordinary formations continue throughout the journey. You’ll love this tour!
Then We’re Off to Zion
After a stunning visit we reluctantly leave Bryce for the wonders of Zion. Artists and photographers have been drawn to Zion for many years in an effort to capture its infinite variety of moods. The incredible landscape of Zion is a magnificent display of beauty. It is a perpetual source of inspiration and renewal for all. Once you experience Zion, you will long to return again and again.
A Presidential Experience
President Taft named the Zion area Mukuntuweap National Monument in order to preserve this special place. In 1918, the National Park Service enlarged the area. A year later the name was changed to Zion National Park as it is known today. A biblical term often used by the Mormons to describe a place of God or being righteous and pure of heart. Once you see it for yourself, you’ll know why.
Unlivable Beauty
Mormons settled the Zion area in the early 1860s. You’ll see why travel to these areas in these early days was extremely rare due to their remote location and complete absence of roads. The first road into Zion Canyon was built in 1917. Then Zion Mount Carmel Highway opened in 1930. The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormons in the early 1870s to graze cattle. The area was named after Ebenezer Bryce. The Mormon church sent Ebenezer Bryce to settle the land because of his carpentry skills. The Bryce family settled right below what is now known as Bryce Amphitheater.
Other settlers soon started to call this unusual place “Bryce’s canyon”. Later, the name was formalized. But you can see how a combination of drought, overgrazing and flooding eventually drove the remaining Paiutes and the Mormons from the area in the late 1870’s. These types of conditions are likely what also forced the Ancient Anasazi from the area hundreds of years before. The Bryce Canyon Tour is your gateway to this historic experience.
Tour Times and Points of Interest
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Operates: Tuesdays & Thursdays or any day with a combined group of 6 or more, call for any day availability.
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Departure: Approximately 6:00 am
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Return time: Approximately 8:30pm
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Pick up at Hotel
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Thor’s Hammer – Bryce Canyon
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Hoodoos – Bryce Canyon
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Inspiration Point – Bryce Canyon
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Zion National Park – Checkerboard Mesa
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Zion National Park – The Watchman and more
Travel and Amenities
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$281 per person
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Includes Continental Breakfast + Lunch + unlimited bottled water and snacks
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Gratuity Not included.
What to wear
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Hiking or athletic walking shoes
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Temperatures are cooler from October – February so long pants and a warm jacket are appropriate.
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March – September temperatures are warm where shorts, hat and light shirt are comfortable.
Vehicles Used (Company’s choice)
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7-passenger Luxury 4×4 SUV’s
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14-passenger VIP touring class mini-coaches
Spiraling Hoodoos
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles northeast of Zion National Park. Covering under 60 square miles, the park is relatively small. Yet Bryce canyon amazes well over 2 million visitors per year! Bryce Canyon, despite its name, is not a canyon at all. As it was not carved from river erosion as Zion or the Grand Canyon was. Instead erosion at the head water of the river has excavated large amphitheaters into the ancient sedimentary rock. As a result, Bryce is distinctive due to bizarre geological structures. And they’re called hoodoos that are up to 200 feet tall.
Natural Amphitheaters
Formed by weathering and erosion of ancient lake beds, a series of amphitheaters extends more than 20 miles within the park. And we’ll show you the largest amphitheater, the magnificent Bryce Amphitheater. Which is 12 miles long, 3 miles wide, 800 feet deep and features layers of red, orange, and cream rock formations. You’ll see that they provide truly stunning vistas. And everyone will love the memories you find here!
See for yourself how wind, water and time have eroded Bryce Canyon National Park’s sandstone cliffs into otherworldly characters plucked from the unconscious of a mad Viking.
You’ll walk along Bryce Canyon’s Dakota Sandstone and Tropic Shale. They deposited in the warm, shallow waters of prehistoric seas while the park’s intricate hoodoos were carved from sediment formed in cool, ancient streams and lakes. Bryce Canyon has one of the highest concentrations of hoodoos of any place on Earth. We’ll guide you to many other formations as well. You’ll experience monoliths, arches, bridges, walls and windows throughout the park. Countless other features have been completely eroded away. And you can imagine them lost to the sands of time in this ever changing landscape. The structures exposed in the park are part of the Grand Staircase. The oldest parts are exposed in the Grand Canyon, the intermediate in Zion National Park, and the youngest parts are in the Bryce Canyon