One of the most popular tourist destinations on earth is the Grand Canyon. Every year, millions of visitors travel to the remote area of Arizona
Monument Valley Tours From Las Vegas Las Vegas is the ideal starting position for tours of Monument Valley. This is not only due to the ideal position of the city as a starting point for tours of most national parks in the American southwest, but also due to the fact that it is ideally suited to be a mini vacation of it’s own. When many people are beginning the process of planning out their visits to national parks, they quickly realize that one of the regulations that protect national parks also make them quite difficult to visit if you are not from the vicinity. Because national parks are protected spaces, they not only will be protected from development within their borders, but also the area surrounding the park for numerous miles. This creates a situation where the park is not only remote but also has little development within its proximity. There will be almost no availability of airline traffic to deposit visitors into an airport that is within even a few hour drive to the park’s entrance, let alone the areas of the space that are desired to see. People visiting parks in Arizona, Nevada and California as well as Utah who are not from any of these states can assume they will need to fly to a starting position then arrange transportation to the park, which will generally take about a 4 to an 8 hour drive. This means that you will need to choose a starting point from the cities that support major airline traffic, which will generally be based upon which park you want to visit in order to keep driving time down. Las Vegas is roughly the same distance to Bryce Canyon as Salt Lake City, each being roughly four hours drive. Many will choose
Monument Valley Tours From Las Vegas Las Vegas is the ideal starting position for tours of Monument Valley. This is not only due to
Bryce and Zion Tours From Las Vegas The national parks of the American southwest are some of the most beautiful spaces on the face of the earth, and each year millions of people make plans to visit them. There are limited amounts of parks that are nationally recognized in southern California and Nevada, consisting of Death Valley and Red Rock for the most part, so the majority of tourism traffic actually heads to the east of these states, landing in the cluster of parks that is found in Utah and Arizona. Because many of these places lie in close proximity to one another, it is common for people to schedule visits to several parks on the same trip, minimizing drive time by venturing out from a starting point and visiting the parks one by one based upon their proximity to one another. His fact makes it common to have “park pairs” where tourists choose two or three parks to visit during a single trip, which parks they are being decided by the city where the journey has begun. Las Vegas and Salt Lake City are the most common destinations to begin national parks tours from, due to the fact that they are the closest major cities to the park clusters in Utah and Arizona. Las Vegas is far more popular of a starting point than Salt Lake City, because they both lie almost the same distance from Bryce Canyon, and Ls Vegas is half of that distance to Zion. Because Las Vegas is a major tourist hub on its own, which will provide more flight choices for better prices as well as far more hotel and restaurant choices for any budget. Another reason Las Vegas is more popular is simply because it is Las Vegas, and many will choose to
Bryce and Zion Tours From Las Vegas The national parks of the American southwest are some of the most beautiful spaces on the face of
Bryce and Zion Tours From Bindlestiff Why is it such a good idea to book your Bryce and Zion tours from Las Vegas? The answer is simple, location location location. There are several options for a base location when organizing your tour of national parks in the southwestern USA, essentially boiling down to Las Vegas and Salt Lake City for most tours. This is because both of these places are about the same distance from the clusters of national parks in Utah and Arizona, and both offer the ability to secure a number of commercial flights into. That is where the comparisons essentially stop, as Las Vegas is far more able to satisfy the needs of most tourists due to the fact that it is a tourist destination itself. Las Vegas offers far more hotel and restaurant choices for nearly any budget, and also offers almost unlimited amounts of entertainment for the time that you will spend outside of your national park tour. If you cannot drive from your home directly to the park itself, using Las Vegas as your starting point just makes sense. For those interested in Bryce and Zion tours, Las Vegas makes far more sense than any other city simply due to the location. Zion is located only two hours drive from downtown, and can be reached without much effort at all. Bryce is about two hours from Zion, which lends itself to doing a combination tour of at least these two parks in order to maximize the time spent exploring parks and minimizing the time spent driving. Most professional touring companies like Bindlestiff Tours choose to actually do tours that also offer Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon on Bryce and Zion tours due to the fact that you can minimize drive time even
Bryce and Zion Tours From Bindlestiff Why is it such a good idea to book your Bryce and Zion tours from Las Vegas? The
The salt flats at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park are one of the most popular attractions for visitors in the southwestern United States, each year attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. Badwater Basin is the lowest point below sea level in the continental United States, and is one of the hottest places on earth. The area itself is nearly completely desolate, with a crust of salt covering the desert floor in all directions, developed by years of drying as a result of the brutal sun over an ancient lake that has since become a dry lake bed. The salt flats are a visual wonder, white crust covering the ground for miles making the area look like the surface of another planet. It is a favorite of photographers, those seeking meditation and just the curious who want to gaze over an unspoiled result of the changing surface of the earth. When damage is done to natural phenomenon like this, it can take thousands of years to be restored, if at all. It is not as if it can be repaired as though you were repainting a house, and instead will generally become a scar on an otherwise perfect landscape. On Wed., March 8 a van drove off the main road at Badwater Basin and onto the salt flats, leaving tire tracks the entire length of it's drive before sinking up to it's axles and becoming stuck. The van had driven for roughly one-half mile in the salt flats before sinking to the point of no longer being able to move forward or backward. The van remained in this place until two days later, when it was towed out by a tracked vehicle. The damage to the flats by both the van and the tracked vehicle that was necessary in
The salt flats at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park are one of the most popular attractions for visitors in the southwestern United States,
Bryce Canyon is one of the most popular destinations in America to visit if you want to experience the stunning beauty of the National Parks that are protected by the US government. Bryce is roughly the same distance from Las Vegas as it is from Salt Lake City, which are the two nearest cities that can support traffic from major airlines. The drive to Bryce is about four hours from both cities, but smart visitors choose Las Vegas as the beginning of the tip far more than Salt Lake City due to the fact that cheaper flights can be had going to Las Vegas, and it also has a far better selection of hotels and restaurants. Lets face it, Las Vegas is also a better tourist destination to start from as well, because there is more to do there on the days when you are not touring the nearby National Parks. Our tours of Bryce Canyon are offered as multiple-park tours for a specific reason, that we can maximize our tour time of National Parks and minimize our driving time by first visiting Zion, which is only 2.5 hours from Vegas, and then traveling from there to Bryce. We also visit Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon on the same trip, due to the fact that we can drive only short distances between the parks and get the best experience of multiple areas while having only short drives in between. Bryce Canyon is absolutely spectacular, and is a must see for people who want to experience the beauty of southwestern open spaces. We allow our customers an even more unique experience than they might ever expect, because most people who see Bryce Canyon only see it during the day. Bindlestiff Tours chooses to allow our visitors to see Bryce at
Bryce Canyon is one of the most popular destinations in America to visit if you want to experience the stunning beauty of the National Parks
Is one of the places on your bucket list that you want to visit the Grand Canyon? It is one of the wonders of the world, and one of the most popular destinations on earth to visit due to the fact that it is also one of the most breathtaking views on earth. Quite simply, there is absolutely nothing like the Grand Canyon, and you will never see anything comparable to it in your lifetime. The south rim of the Grand Canyon is the more beautiful of the places where the canyon can be accessed, and while the other areas may have things like the Skywalk, we prefer the more natural beauty to the shock value of standing on a glass floor thousands of feet in the air. Our philosophy about experiencing the National Parks of the United States is to see the natural beauty that is offered instead of the tourist traps, which is why we choose to put the south rim into our tours. The main reason that people go to the other areas of the canyon is basically because they are only a few hours from Las Vegas, where most people from other areas start their trips to southwest parks. You need to start your trip from a city that has an airport that has commercial flights, and you need a city that has a wide choice of hotels for different budgets, which makes Las Vegas a perfect starting place. Because of the proximity to Vegas, many people choose to visit the less beautiful area of the Grand Canyon....but we choose instead to visit the more scenic area even though it takes longer to get there. To get to the closest areas of the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas only takes 2.5 hours, but to get to
Is one of the places on your bucket list that you want to visit the Grand Canyon? It is one of the wonders of the
Zion Canyon National Park is one of the most popular protected spaces in the United States to visit and explore. No more than a few years ago, many National Parks were having some difficulty with dropping visitor numbers, and governmental pressures to commit resources to spaces that had low tourism numbers. Basically, politicians were hesitant to give money to programs that would keep the parks in good repair, clean and staffed, due to sagging numbers of tourists visiting the areas. The response was an advertising campaign called "Find Your Park" that utilized television and magazine ads to illustrate the beauty of these protected spaces. The response was overwhelmingly successful, and tourism to the National Parks marketed skyrocketed. Zion Canyon National Park, however, saw far more of an increase in interest than others did. This can only lead people involved in the tourism industry to speculate on why. The answer might actually be found in the park's geographic location. Zion is roughly 2.5 hours drive from Las Vegas. While that may seem like a lot, it is actually about half the distance from Las Vegas as many of the other parks that were advertised like Bryce and Monument Valley. While most tour operators like ourselves will offer the tour of Zion as part of trips that visit multiple parks, many people will simply drive to Zion on their own. This is the reason behind the increases in tourist activity at the areas, and the best guess as to why Zion became so much more popular than the other parks is because it is the closest to a major city like Las Vegas, where people can take a commercial flight into and find a hotel room easily. Other nearly cities like Salt Lake City do not have as good of flight schedules
Zion Canyon National Park is one of the most popular protected spaces in the United States to visit and explore. No more than a few
In 2016 Death Valley had a rare event that comes around every ten years or so, historically. It isn't like it is something that is scheduled, but instead is a natural phenomenon that only happens when weather conditions are perfect. Seeds of wildflowers lay dormant in the ground of the area, not being given the proper conditions to actually germinate, laying in a dormant state that can last for decades without damaging them. When the conditions are correct, featuring late winter rain and early spring warm temperatures, hundreds of millions of wild flowers spring to life at the same time, creating blankets of color that are completely out of the ordinary for the hottest and driest place on earth. In an area that once recorded a temperature of 135 degrees, wildflowers are super rare. In 2016, tours of Death Valley spiked as far as interest from people worldwide, as they scrambled to get to Death Valley between early March and late April. The superbloom had happened, and word spread through social media that Death Valley was covered in yellow and purple flowers. Unfortunately for many, the short timeframe that the superbloom sees (roughly one month) when it is at its best viewing stages did not allow many people to actually book their trips to Las Vegas or to nearby towns in California, from where they could either drive or take a tour bus to Death Valley. Once many people had found out that it had happened, it was just too late to make arrangements. For the people who could manage to get to Death Valley, they found far higher numbers of other people there, and heavier traffic than usual. Basically, once word was out that the superbloom was in effect, a lot of people wanted to go. If you planned on
In 2016 Death Valley had a rare event that comes around every ten years or so, historically. It isn’t like it is something that is
Bindlestiff Tours is happy to announce the upcoming tour schedule for Death Valley tours in 2017. Tours of Death Valley, CA will be available leaving on Sundays and Fridays from select hotels and stopping points in Las Vegas. The tours are single day adventures that will transport visitors from Las Vegas to Death Valley for a price of $219 per person, including a boxed lunch provided. The tour is guided by one of our expert tour guides, who are experts on Death Valley and the aspects of the area that make it so unique. We are not like competing companies that simply put a DVD on the screens and drive from stop to stop, and instead we pride ourselves on allowing our guests to experience the areas with the help of our guides. This means stopping at points of interest, strolling, taking pictures, asking questions and experiencing the way you want to. The tour generally will stop at Zabriskie Point first, providing guests with the ability to hike to the summit and get a unique 360 degree view of one of the most extreme places on earth. We also make stops at Badwater Basin (the lowest point below sea level in the US) and Furnace Creek (where the hottest temperature ever recorded happened.) Other stops and points of interest round out the day of exploration that will illustrate the diversity and beauty of Death Valley. This year, the "death" in Death Valley might become a lot less dead if the expected superbloom happens. Once every ten years or so, a rare occurrence happens in the valley where ideal rain and weather conditions cause the area to spring to life with millions of wildflower blooms that are typically dormant. If the superbloom happens as expected, this should provide ideal viewing times
Bindlestiff Tours is happy to announce the upcoming tour schedule for Death Valley tours in 2017. Tours of Death Valley, CA will be available leaving