Granite walls, slot canyons, volcanic plateaus, ghost towns and the hottest place on Earth. Nine experiences across the American West.
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9 experiences · California, Utah, Wyoming, Washington, Arizona
Half Dome, El Capitan and the valley that defined American wilderness. Granite walls rising 1,000m from the valley floor.
Read guide → Arizona · Colorado Plateau1,800m deep and 446km long. The Bright Angel and South Kaibab trails into the inner canyon, where the Colorado River carved a billion years of geology.
Read guide → Utah · Colorado PlateauAngels Landing chains hike, The Narrows wading through the Virgin River, and red sandstone walls 600m overhead. The most visited park in the USA.
Read guide → Utah · Colorado PlateauThousands of hoodoos — orange limestone spires — in an amphitheatre at 2,400m. Gold Tier dark sky park. Surreal in snow.
Read guide → Wyoming · Rocky MountainsMountains that rise straight from the valley floor with no foothills. Cascade Canyon, moose in the meadows, and the full 48km Paintbrush-Cascade backpack.
Read guide → Wyoming · Rocky MountainsThe Grand Prismatic Spring, bison herds on the plateau and backcountry geothermal wilderness unlike anywhere on Earth.
Read guide → Washington · Pacific NorthwestThree ecosystems in one park: ancient temperate rainforest, alpine meadows at Hurricane Ridge, and 120km of wild Pacific coastline with sea stacks and arches.
Read guide → California · Eastern SierraA gold rush town of 10,000 people, abandoned in the 1940s and preserved exactly as left. 200 buildings, no restoration, no tourists crowds. Off the main circuit.
Read guide → California · Mojave DesertThe hottest, driest and lowest place in North America. Badwater Basin at -86m, salt flats, sand dunes, and a Milky Way visible 365 nights a year.
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