Are you considering spending some time this year exploring some of the great outdoor places in the United States? Obviously you are thinking about our national parks and protected spaces where you can see some of the most beautiful and unspoiled areas on earth, while never leaving the country. A large percentage of the national parks in the US are actually located in the southwest, where open land and natural geographic phenomenon create landscapes that are otherworldly. If this is your idea of what you would like to experience, we would suggest you look into one of our multi-day multi-park tours that will leave from Las Vegas.
One of the more convenient aspects of touring southwestern national parks and using Las Vegas as the starting point is the location itself. Most national parks in the country are multiple hour drives from any city, due to the fact that the protection of the area itself prevents development within a certain area. Las Vegas is about 4 hours from many of the parks in Utah and Arizona, but is actually only 2.5 hours from Zion. This makes for an interesting multi-park tour as you can leave from Las Vegas and get to Zion in only a short time, then after exploring and enjoying Zion you can move on to Bryce in only around another two hours of driving time. Instead of driving straight through to a park that is literally a half day drive away, you can minimize your commuting time and spend more time exploring the parks themselves by making the loop out and back this way. Our tours will also visit Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon before the Grand Canyon and then back to Las Vegas, creating a circle that keeps you exploring without too much time sitting in a van watching the road go by.
Starting in Las Vegas makes sense for many other reasons as well, mostly being that Las Vegas is a tourist location in it’s own right. It has an airport where you are going to be able to find many flight choices, and it also has more hotels and restaurants than nearly any other city in the world. It makes sense to use the city for it’s built in tourist aspects then leave from there to begin your adventure. The proximity to Zion Canyon and the ease with which you can fly in and out alone make it the best choice.
So why would you want to visit Zion Canyon and Bryce Canyon? Quite simply, these are two of the most spectacular places on earth to see, and both offer outdoor activities like hiking and horseback riding that are going to make you feel like a cowboy in a movie. If you want to actually look like a cowboy in a movie, just have your picture taken at Monument Valley because that is the actual backdrop for hundreds of westerns that you have probably seen over the years. Regardless of your motivation, touring southwestern national parks from Las Vegas makes sense, and using Bindlestiff Tours to arrange it all makes even more.