We offer exclusive tours customized for you and your group.  Pick-up and drop-off times are designed to fit your preferences and we can modify where we go to maximize your enjoyment if weather poses special challenges.  Below are suggestions of some of the options we can design for you.  Half-day tours also available.  Perfect for photography enthusiasts and/or folks with limited mobility.

  Upper Salt Valley, Arches National Park, Moab UT

Salts and Faults

Van Tour with Optional Hikes

Experience Arches National Park as few others do, exploring more remote areas and seeing fewer people. Learn how salt has given the Moab area such uniquely different features from the Grand Canyon, poster child of the Colorado Plateau.

Explore fins, arches and colorful rocks of the park by vehicle and foot.

Price:  Half Day - $125 per person (4-person minimum).
Includes snacks, transportation and park fees.

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Canyons, Peaks and Plateaus
RECOMMENDED FOR HOT SUMMER MONTHS. 

Self-guided Tour with Optional Hikes

Explore the geology and natural history of the Moab area via the Colorado River corridor and the La Sal Mountains.  Experience a variety of rocks types and formations up close, including dinosaur tracks, and magnificent views along the way.

Take Hwy 128 to the Castle Valley/ La Sal Mountain Loop tour, with a 6-mile (each way) diversion on the Castleton Road to Hell Canyon Dinosaur tracks on USFS land.  Return to Moab via the La Sal Mountain Loop Road and Spanish Valley Drive.

Igneous intrusions of the La Sal Mountains with mesas and fins of Jurassic-age sandstone.

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Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands Curiosities

Van Tour with Optional Hikes

Explore the especially unique features of the Moab area in this tour to Canyonlands National Park from Moab.  Examine new discoveries relating to Jurassic-era life and climate in the desert dunes of the Navajo sandstone; ponder the magnificent Upheaval Dome that draws hundreds of scientists a year, experience vast vistas that tell the story of the Colorado Plateau and discuss the interaction of geology and man through the millenia, including new oil and uranium exploration.

Price:  $150 per person (4-person minimum). Full-day exclusive tour includes snacks, transportation and park fees. 

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Dead Horse Point State Park

Van Tour with Optional Hikes

Visit Utah's most spectacular State Park, with its stunning view of the Colorado River and Thelma and Louise Point from the high plateau.  Hike 2-4 miles around the rim while learning about the local geology and natural resources, including mining activities.   With luck we'll see active potholes teaming with life.

Half-Day tour
Price: $150 per person (4-person minimum). Includes transportation, fees and light snacks.

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Custom Geology Instructional Services

Step-On Education and Consultation

Spend all or part of a day with PhD geologist Tamsin McCormick in Arches and/or Canyonlands National Parks and beyond, in a hand-crafted presentation or tour from elementary to professional level, using your transportation.  Ideal for individuals with specific interests or for groups seeking a higher level of understanding of the geology and natural resources of the Colorado Plateau and Moab area.

Dr McCormick explaining Upheaval Dome to a school group.

 

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Trip Bonus !!!

These programs help to support our service learning and conservation programs for students and adults in the Moab area. We have generated over 50,000 volunteer hours for conservation and wildlife projects since 1996 through our parent non-profit organization, Plateau Restoration.  Programs also support our mission to protect native habitats of the Colorado Plateau by ensuring an informed public.

To learn more about our organization visit http://www.plateaurestoration.org