American West family adventure holiday
Highlights
Arches National Park | Valley of Fire State Park | Zion National Park | Bryce National Park | Kodachrome Basin State Park | Wild camping | Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park | Night in traditional Navajo mud hut | Grand Canyon National Park | Lake Powell | Route 66 | Hoover Dam | Las VegasDescription of American West family adventure holiday
This North American family adventure holiday is a guided, small group tour travelling with other like minded families, starting and finishing in Las Vegas, and taking in some of the west’s most spectacular national parks in between.If your family relishes the idea of camping among the canyon landscapes of Arizona and Utah, exploring the Grand Canyon National Park, kayaking on stunning Lake Powell and understanding the heritage of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park with an indigenous guide, then this trip is for you.
A nine day adventure, this is a holiday to forget exams and electronics and embrace wild open landscapes, sunrise over canyons, or hikes within them. And have a very special holiday time together.
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01273 823 700 rosy@responsibletravel.comResponsible tourism


Responsible tourism: American West family adventure holiday
We are committed to offering low impact tours that benefit both the places and communities we visit as well as our travellers. It is important for us all to be aware of the delicate balance that exists in the variety of natural wonders you will visit. National Parks and monuments, archaeological sites and other sensitive areas should and must be treated with respect.
We have created a 'Travellers' Code of Conduct' to help prepare and inform our groups of the various positive or negative effects they could have on a destination. The code includes tips on everything from handling wildlife encounters to how you can help to conserve precious natural resources. Our tour leaders will explain this code of conduct during the first night’s orientation talk and encourage you to follow it throughout the tour.
This code includes following the ‘Leave No Trace’ ethic, this is an international campaign that is designed to help us minimise the impact on the National Parks and other wilderness areas that we visit. Some key guidelines we follow include keeping to existing trails, staying in official campgrounds and disposing of all waste responsibly and recycling whatever we can.
We are proud supporters of Bay Area Wilderness Training (www.bawt.org) a charity based in Oakland California which works to connect disadvantaged children in the local urban area with the great outdoors. Their work helps to provide these young people with life changing experiences which they can
apply to everyday life. Everyone booking with Grand American Adventures has the option to donate £1/$1/€1 to support this well-deserved charity and we will match this donation.
Whenever possible, we use local accommodation and activity providers. We also shop locally for groceries, eat in small family-run restaurants and visit local shops whenever possible. This all brings economic benefit to the local communities that we visit.
We spend a significant amount of time at various National Parks on this tour, the included entrance fees help to preserve the status and upkeep of the park on a continued and sustainable basis. Interaction with National Park Rangers helps to preserve this role as an employment opportunity for local people and future generations.
In Monument Valley, we use a Navajo guide to show you their native lands. This gives you an opportunity to interact with and understand the community on an individual level; it also puts money back into the local economy to help sustain the future of their community.
It is also important that we help to protect the fragile desert environment. The desert’s natural way to avoid sand erosion is by creating cryptobiotic soil which creates a living crust on the desert floor. This special soil helps the desert to protect itself from wind and rain erosion and promotes plant growth. All our tour leaders encourage our travellers to stick to the path to avoid damaging this special soil which can be hard to see.
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