Have you always wanted to visit Zion Canyon National Park, but didn’t think that it was possible because it is just too far to drive from where you are? While this might be the case if you were going to try and do it yourself, and would involve a road trip of many hundreds of miles from wherever you live, there is an alternative that you should probably consider. If you would like to visit Zion Canyon National Park you should leave from Las Vegas. We know what you are thinking, that Las Vegas is hardly the kind of place for a nature lover who wants to experience the beauty of unspoiled regions like Zion, but there is more to the story than the glittering lights that make Las Vegas what it is. Las Vegas is the perfect starting and ending point for a trip like this simply for the same reasons that it was born in the first place. Las Vegas was born as a stopover location for people who were traveling across the desert from the east coast to California, and gained it’s popularity for providing travelers with not only things that they needed, but also wanted. It was born out of the necessity for travelers across the desert to refuel and restock, as well as to get rest for the remaining portion of the trip. It was born because of it’s unique location in the middle of wide expanses of desert in all directions. While this isolated it as a city, it provided the perfect scenario as far as location when someone is traveling to areas that are in the surrounding desert. This describes the majority of the national parks in the southwestern portion of the United States, making Las Vegas a perfect place to start almost any trip. Even better is the fact that Zion Canyon is actually only 2.5 hours drive from Las Vegas, and is accessible for those who want to visit but only have a short time on their hands to spare.
Many people will use the city as the logical starting point for their trip, flying into Las Vegas and booking a room where they can leave their belongings while they travel to the nearby parks. If you do not want to rent a car and drive yourself, services like ours will pick you up at our hotel and drive you to the park and back, as well as provide all the things you need like meals and directions with regards to the best places within the park to visit. Our tours are considered as “guided adventure tours,” which means that you do not simply sit on a bus and watch the scenery go by. We get out into it and explore, hike and walk in order to get a better sense of the unique experiences that can be had in these unique landscapes. Zion itself is one of the most unique and beautiful areas on earth, and when you combine it with the short drive from a major tourist city, you realize that a Zion tour is more easy to pull off than you ever dreamed!