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The Mighty Five Pika PIKA | ITINERARY The Mighty Five Pika Trip Style Duration Hiking 8 Days ACTIVE 2-3 Hiking Wildlife Stargazing Grand Junction - St George Get ready to be transported to a land of geologic wonder! From the brilliant red spires of the Fisher Towers to the soaring heights of Angel’s Landing to the intimate waterfalls of The Narrows trail, the Mighty Five National Parks Tour will sweep you into an alien landscape that will have you questioning whether you’ve traveled to another (very beautiful) planet. The arid landscapes of Utah are world-renowned for their stunning beauty. The Mighty Five Utah National Parks Tour weaves its way through five of the most striking national parks in the world. Whether you’re looking up from the bottom of a slot-canyon or down from a lofty desert overlook, you will experience places that will engage all of your senses. Evenings will be marked with rustic elegance punctuated by great local cuisine. Highlights Hike Get your feet wet in The Narrows, a hike that’s more stream than trail, walking through a canyon punctuated by waterfalls and hanging gardens. Ascend Walter’s Wiggles and Scout Lookout as you make your way up one of the most famous trails in the world to Angel’s Landing. Explore Capitol Reef’s colorful landscape of tilted buttes, jumbled rocks and sedimentary canyons the Land of the Sleeping Rainbow. Plus.. Look up at some of the clearest skies in the world. You’ve never seen the Milky Way like you will in the desert. Enjoy hitting five national parks in one week, and marveling at the diversity of landscapes that are only a few short miles apart. Seek out the incredible diversity of life that calls Southern Utah home with the help of your knowledgeable guides. activeadventures.com 1 PIKA | ITINERARY Here’s What’s Included; We’ve Got You Covered. All guiding services All activities Two experienced guides per trip. Having two guides If you’re passionate about hiking, this is your trip. And allows for much greater flexibility, meaning you’re able when you’re not hiking, you’ll be enjoying a different to go at your own pace. view, from a lookout or stunningly located lodge and a well earned beverage. All accommodations A range of hotels, lodges and inns. The locations are All transport chosen for their history and amazing scenery. When you’re not travelling under your own steam, there will be comfortable air-conditioned vans to stretch your All meals legs. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on all days, except where indicated on the itinerary (breakfast on day 1, dinner on day 6 and lunch/dinner on day 8). Itinerary Day 1 Hike Canyonlands National Park Once we’ve all met in Grand Junction, we’ll begin our journey with a drive to our first national park of this trip – Canyonlands! Canyonlands National Park is known for its dramatic desert landscape carved by the Colorado River, a wilderness of countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes. We’ll explore Utah’s largest national park with a few short hikes, eyeing the skyward-jutting spires and needles, deep craters, and blue-hued mesas that dot the landscape. The Grant View Point trail is a popular choice a great chance to see some wildlife. After we’ve exhausted ourselves we’ll head to our accommodation for the night and our base camp for exploration of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands Inn (Lunch, Dinner) Grand View Hiking Distance: 2.9 kilometres (1.8 miles), 1-2 hours Elevation Gain: 106 metres (350 feet) Elevation Loss: 106 metres (350 feet) Upheavel Dome Hiking Distance: 1.6 kilometres (1 miles), 0.5-1 hour Mesa Arch Hiking Distance: 0.8 kilometres (0.5 mile), 0.5-1 hour Elevation Gain: 30 metres (100 feet) Elevation Loss: 30 metres (100 feet) Day 2 Hike Fisher Towers, explore Moab After a hearty breakfast we’ll depart for Moab to hike the Fisher Towers - a series of towers made of Cutler sandstone capped with Moenkopi sandstone and caked with a stucco of red mud. The trail is a maze of soaring fins, pinnacles, minarets, gargoyles, spires, and strangely shaped rock formations and the towers are world renowned for their exciting rock-climbing routes and have been a favorite subject of photographers for years. After this beautiful hike, we’ll settle in for a BBQ lunch at a nearby lodge. In the afternoon we can enjoy some downtime during the heat, you could choose to relax by the poolside, explore downtown Moab or grab a drink at a local brewery. Later on we’ll meet back up for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in town. Canyonlands Inn (All meals) Fish Towers Hiking Distance: 7.1 kilometres (4.4 miles), 2-3 hours Elevation Gain: 274 metres (900 feet) Elevation Loss: 274 metres (900 feet) activeadventures.com 2 PIKA | ITINERARY Day 3 Hike Arches National Park It’s an early start to the morning today to beat the crowds and the heat at Arches National Park. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. We’ll hike into Delicate Arch for an awe-inspiring sunrise viewing, perfect for photographers. The Delicate Arch is a 52-foot-tall (16 m) freestanding natural arch and the trail to get up close and personal is a steady uphill climb through dry desert terrain, occasionally passing stunted trees or rock piles providing welcome shade. We’ll head back the same way and continue on to Devil’s Garden to explore more of the park by foot. We’ll encounter the famous Landscape Arch, along with a few of our guides’ favorite arches in the area. After lunch, we’ll drive through to the Capitol Reef National Park, where we’ll spend the night in the Capitol Reef Resort, located on the doorstep of the park, and enjoy dinner in a quaint nearby town. Capitol Reef Resort (All meals) Delicate Arch Hiking Distance: 6.4 kilometres (4 miles), 1-2 hours Elevation Gain: 182 metres (600 feet) Elevation Loss: 182 metres (600 feet) Landscape Arch Hiking Distance: 2.6 kilometres (1.6 miles), 1 hour Elevation Gain: 79 metres (260 feet) Elevation Loss: 79 metres (260 feet) Day 4 Hike Capitol Reef National Park This morning we’ll head out for a hike or two through the beautiful Cohab Canyon. Native Americans once called this colorful landscape of tilted buttes, jumbled rocks and sedimentary canyons the Land of the Sleeping Rainbow. The banded orange and yellow walls do in fact resemble pastel-striped eggs and the holes and pockets texture the surface create a sandstone honeycomb fortified in rock. After lunch we’ll drive through to Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, known for it’s rimson-colored hoodoos, which are spire-shaped rock formations. On our way we’ll stop off at Anasazi State Park, where the ruins of an ancient Native American village are sheltered. Our accommodation for the next two nights, the Bryce Canyon Grand Hotel, is surrounded by fantastic scenery, most notably the hoodoos which you’ll encounter in the coming days. Bryce Canyon Grand (All meals) Cohab Canyon Hiking Distance: 3.2 kilometres (2 miles), 1-2 hours Elevation Gain: 134 metres (440 feet) Elevation Loss: 134 metres (440 feet) Day 5 Hike Bryce Canyon National Park After a hearty breakfast we’ll embark on a hike through the magical hoodoo rock formations of Bryce’s Queens Garden trail. The trail drops down into the canyon and we’ll wander through natural sculpted rock gardens of brilliantly colored spires, cliffs, and natural amphitheaters with the trail looping up with the Peek-a-boo trail, creating a figure-8, passing by the Wall of Windows, the Hindu temples and many more exquisite series of arches and hoodoos. There’s also an opportunity to head to the southern end of the National Park to take in the jaw dropping views from Rainbow Point. Afterwards we can all share our favorite parts of Bryce Canyon with the group as we dine at Bryce Pines. If you’re a night owl, be sure to take advantage of one of the clearest night skies around and try your hand at finding some of the constellations. Bryce Canyon Grand (All meals) Queens Garden Hiking Distance: 4.7 kilometres (2.9 miles) 1-2 hours Elevation Gain: 192 metres (630 feet) Elevation Loss: 192 metres (630 feet) Peek-a-boo Hiking Distance: 8.4 kilometres (5.2 miles), 2-3 hours Elevation Gain: 443 metres (1453 feet) Elevation Loss: 443 metres (1453 feet) activeadventures.com 3 PIKA | ITINERARY Day 6 Hike Bryce Canyon National Park & Zion National Park We’ll start the day with a hike offering unforgettable views of hoodoo scenery along the Bird’s Eye Trail, this is a short trail that leads past beautiful and unusual rock formations, providing close-up views. After our morning hike, we’ll drive to Zion National Park, winding through the magnificent canyon walls and towering cliffs that make up this majestic park. We’ll hike Angel’s Landing, one of the top-rated hikes in the world, a trail cut into solid rock in 1926 leads to the top of Angels Landing and provides views of Zion Canyon. With chain-assisted rock scrambling sections, stunning views, and vertigo- inducing heights, this hike is more about the journey than the destination. Later we’ll check into our accommodation for the next two nights, Springhill Suites, located only one mile for the parks entrance.
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