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Canyon varies from four to an YOUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES incredible eighteen miles in width • All airfare, taxes & fuel surcharges and reaches a depth of almost a • Guaranteed prices & low deposit mile below the South Rim. Enjoy photo and viewing stops from spec- • Holiday Tour Director & local guides tacular overlooks. Tonight we relish • Motorcoach & professional driver the unique experience to stay within • Baggage handling at hotels Grand Canyon National Park, right • $100 travel voucher for a future tour on the canyon’s rim! This evening, savor the colors and changing light of sunset while overlooking the 15 Excellent Meals Featuring CHRISTY SHIELDS magnificent canyon. CB As a child, Christy was terrified of • Cowboy Dinner & Show at Ebenezer’s thunderstorms. This frequently led her DAY 6: THE GRAND Barn & Grill to watch the local news and weather STAIRCASE • Holiday Vacations Farewell Dinner coverage. Her fear turned into a Savor sweeping panoramas and B=Breakfast CB=Continental Breakfast fascination with weather, which helped surreal landscapes during our last L=Lunch D=Dinner her understand weather patterns in stop at Grandview Lookout before her hometown of Butler, PA. departing the Grand Canyon. We’ll traverse the Grand Staircase before All Accommodations Featuring Christy pursued her passion at The arriving at incredible Zion National • in Salt Lake City Pennsylvania State University, where Park, a spectacular example of cliff 2 nights she earned her B.S. in Meteorology. Bryce, Zion & the Grand Canyon • 2 nights in Moab and canyon landscapes. Carved by While at Penn State, she was an active AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 Additional dates may be available the over millions of • 1 night in Kayenta member of the Campus Weather Service, years, we will stay the night in the • 1 night in Grand Canyon National Park which is the largest student-run weather Zion Park area, nestled among the • 1 night near service in the U.S. She produced fore- Immerse yourself in the scenic beauty of and Arizona United States. We also visit the Edge towering rock formations. B,D casts for different parts of Pennsylvania of the Cedars State Park Museum to • 2 nights near Bryce Canyon while visiting four iconic National Parks and Salt Lake City. National Park and was a communications shift manager view an impressive collection of Native DAY 7: ZION NATIONAL PARK for The Campus Weather Service. DAY 1: FLY TO SALT LAKE CITY Moab. Today we explore Arches American artifacts. After an included Enjoy free time to explore the park As a shift manager, she helped other Settle in for a restful night in National Park with an expert local lunch, we discover Goosenecks State by tram and learn the history and students hone their skills in front of downtown Salt Lake City. guide. This is the world’s largest Park. Here, we overlook the San geology of the region. View soaring Attractions & Highlights the green screen. concentration of natural sandstone Juan River, its course zigzagging cliffs, waterfalls, and rock formations • Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square DAY 2: VISIT MOAB arches, which are the result of erosion more than six miles in less than one described as thrones, steeples, and • Arches National Park She also worked as a meteorologist for Our day begins with a visit to see the and weathering. A boxed lunch will linear mile! We then venture to the cathedrals. Later, we unpack for CNET on the show Weather or Not. • Dead Horse Point State Park Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square be served before we visit Dead Horse Monument Valley Visitor Center. The two relaxing nights in the Bryce Before working at WTAJ, she was in • Newspaper Rock as they record a performance for the Point State Park, considered Utah’s rugged, untouched beauty of this Canyon area. B Hagerstown, MD at HMTV6 as the • Edge of the Cedars State Park longest-running radio broadcast of most spectacular state park. Scenic area has been used to portray the morning meteorologist. Join Christy its kind in the U.S. Next we travel to overlooks provide breathtaking Old West in many motion picture and DAY 8: BRYCE CANYON • Goosenecks State Park on this exciting vacation. Moab for two wonderful evenings. B,D panoramas of sculptured pinnacles television westerns. CB,L,D Rimmed by pine and aspen forests, • San Juan River

and buttes. CB,L Bryce Canyon National Park offers • Monument Valley Visitor Center ARCHES NATIONAL DAY 5: THE GRAND CANYON DAY 3: a marvelous viewing experience. • Grand Canyon National Park PARK DAY 4: MONUMENT VALLEY Today we visit the awe-inspiring The park is a natural wonderland of • Zion National Park Enjoy an included continental break- Visit Newspaper Rock, one of the Grand Canyon! Stretching 227 miles towering spires and erosion-sculpted fast each morning during our stay in finest examples of petroglyphs in the along the , the Grand rocks called hoodoos. We make sev- • Bryce Canyon National Park eral photo stops along our route. The • Bryce Wildlife Museum Flights Newspaper Rock Goosenecks State Park Monument Valley afternoon is free for additional sight- Motorcoach seeing. This evening, we enjoy live 1 2 3 # of Overnights entertainment and a Cowboy Dinner Price Per Person at Ebenezer’s Barn and Grill. B,D 1 1 Salt Lake City ALL AIRFARE INCLUDED! Double...... $4199 per person DAY 9: SALT LAKE CITY Single...... 4999 per person Price We visit the Bryce Wildlife Museum, Triple/Quad subject to availability Arches featuring animal taxidermy and one UT National of the finest butterfly collections in Deposit: $200 per person Park Your price is 2 North America. Later we travel back Guaranteed Price: Moab guaranteed upon receipt of your deposit. Newspaper Rock to Salt Lake City and gather for a Farewell Dinner. B,D Final Payment: June 30, 2020 Bryce Canyon Edge of the Full refund 61 days prior to departure Zion 2 National Park Cedars S.P. National DAY 10: FLY HOME 1 Kanab Park Monument Valley We fly home with delightful memories. 1 Kayenta Highest Elevation: 9,100 feet at Rainbow

Grand Canyon Point in Bryce Canyon National Park. ACTIVITY LEVEL 3 OUT OF 5 National Park 1 AZ Refer to General Informationcontinued insert for on details back Featured National Parks Magnificent Beauty, Rich History & Unique Geology Grand Canyon National Park The Grand Canyon is one of the most impressive natural wonders in America. This incredible chasm is 277 miles long, about the same as the distance between Chicago and St. Louis! The coloration of Bryce Zion the Grand Canyon changes constantly , due to sunlight and clouds ranging from bright red to deep purple. & the Grand Canyon Zion National Park Zion National Park is Utah’s first National AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 Park, designated as such in 1919. It is also the state’s most visited with nearly three million people experiencing the park’s natural wonders every year. Carved by the Virgin River over millions of years, Zion has steep cliff faces and fascinating rock formations created by the erosion of wind, water, and time.

Bryce Canyon National Park Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park is a geological forest of colorful pinnacles, spires, fins, arches, mazes and formations called hoodoos. The incredible limestone formations range in color from red to yellow to lavender.

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