Southwest Grand Canyon Adventure

Featuring:

• Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO –

  ride the tram to the top!

• Oklahoma City National Memorial
• Oklahoma Route 66 Museum
• Cadillac Ranch -

  An aristocracy of roadside attractions has been raised over the years: glorified in photo essays, calendars, blogs, and social media; spotlighted in video and film; instantly recognizable as icons. These Great Monuments, we are told, represent America's hopes and dreams, art and commerce, materialism and spiritualism, folly and fame.

• Old Town Albuquerque -

  Historic Old Town has been the heart of Albuquerque since the city was founded in 1706. Today, historic Old Town Albuquerque is the city's cultural center, with five museums and more than 100 shops, galleries and restaurants. More than 300 years after it was founded, Old Town remains a center for culture, architecture, shopping, art and cuisine. 

• Sandia Peak Tramway -

  The Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway transports you above deep canyons and breathtaking terrain. See nature’s dramatic beauty unfold before you from the observation deck atop 10,378 foot Sandia Peak in the Cibola National Forest an 11,000 square-mile panoramic view of the “Land of Enchantment”.

• Petrified Forest -

  The 93,493 acres of the Petrified Forest include the most spectacular display of petrified wood in the world! You are looking at tree trunks of solid stone that range in age up to 160 million years old.

• Meteor Crater Interactive Discovery Center -

  The Visitor Discovery Center is the most extensive interactive display of meteor impact science of its type in the world.  It includes guest controlled computer simulations, a meteorite fragment weighing over 1400 lbs.; artifacts from early exploration and scientific study of the crater; high-tech graphics of space, meteorites and asteroids, and the solar system; plus exhibits from Apollo astronaut training and asteroid collisions worldwide and on other planets.

• Grand Canyon – guided jeep tour, IMAX movie
• Tlaquepaque Arts & Craft Village, Sedona
• Verde Canyon Railroad -

  Verde Canyon Railroad, nestled in the heart of the expansive Verde Valley, is ideally located above the heat of the desert and below the cold of Arizona's high country.  The train provides an easy and fun way to experience 'Arizona's longest-running nature show.'

• Chuckwagon dinner & show
• Heard Museum, Phoenix
• Saguaro National Park
• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
• Tombstone –

  see the shoot out at the OK Corral!

• Carlsbad Caverns - involves a lot of walking
• Free time at Fort Worth Stock Yards and see the Cattle Drive down Main Street
• William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
• Memphis Mojo tour of Memphis -

  90 minutes of high-energy fun on this musical journey featuring Memphis’ greatest attractions. Rock ‘n Roll, blues, and a whole lotta soul

• Nashville Nightlife Dinner Show
• Kentucky Derby Museum -

  There are few American sporting events with the history and popularity of the Kentucky Derby. Since 1875, the race has continuously produced “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports,” uninterrupted – even when coinciding with profound historical events like the Great Depression and two World Wars. Its rich traditions – sipping a mint julep from a silver cup, donning a beautiful hat and belting out “My Old Kentucky Home” with fellow race fans – have become just as iconic as the race itself.    

• Derby Dinner Playhouse - Show TBA

 

OVERNIGHT STAYS:

Day 1:  Effingham, IL

Day 2: Miami, OK
Day 3: Amarillo,TX

Day 4: Albuquerque,NM

Day 5 & 6: Williams, AZ

Day 7: Cottonwood, AZ
Day 8: Tucson, AZ
Day 9: Deming, NM

Day 10:  Monahans

Day 11:  Grapevine, Tx

Day 12:  Memphis, TN

Day 13: Nashville, TN

Day 14: Clarksville, IN

 

MEALS INCLUDED: 14B, 6L, 1BL, 8D

 

EARN LOYALTY POINTS:

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