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This is a single room supplemental fee.

Please select the appropriate dated section for a single supplement to your Canyon de Chelly trip. This single supplement fee is in addition when registering for the Canyon de Chelly Adventure trip. Select this option if you want your own hotel room as a single passenger. 

This is a single room supplemental fee.

Please select the appropriate dated section for a single supplement to your Canyon de Chelly trip. This single supplement fee is in addition when registering for the Canyon de Chelly Adventure trip. Select this option if you want your own hotel room as a single passenger. 

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Follow Diamond Creek Road as it winds through Peach Springs Canyon – the only road access to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Diamond Creek Road will take us down the canyon to the banks of the Colorado River. Along the way, we will stop to enjoy the views and learn about Hualapai history, cultures, and the geology and the natural history of the canyon. You will enjoy a picnic lunch with an optional walk the last mile to the Colorado River following a narrow canyon that crosses Diamond Creek. Includes driving on a bumpy and winding dirt road to the Colorado River.  Activity Rating: 1-2. 

 -Tuition includes transportation, Hualapai permits, box lunch and field instruction. Departs at 7:30AM from Prescott Campus.

*Chino Valley pickup available. 

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Follow Diamond Creek Road as it winds through Peach Springs Canyon – the only road access to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Diamond Creek Road will take us down the canyon to the banks of the Colorado River. Along the way, we will stop to enjoy the views and learn about Hualapai history, cultures, and the geology and the natural history of the canyon. You will enjoy a picnic lunch with an optional walk the last mile to the Colorado River following a narrow canyon that crosses Diamond Creek. Includes driving on a bumpy and winding dirt road to the Colorado River.  Activity Rating: 1-2. 

 -Tuition includes transportation, Hualapai permits, box lunch and field instruction. Departs at 7:30AM from Prescott Campus.

*Chino Valley pickup available. 

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Reserve at least two weeks in advance.

Follow Diamond Creek Road as it winds through Peach Springs Canyon – the only road access to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Diamond Creek Road will take us down the canyon to the banks of the Colorado River. Along the way, we will stop to enjoy the views and learn about Hualapai history, cultures, and the geology and the natural history of the canyon. You will enjoy a picnic lunch with an optional walk the last mile to the Colorado River following a narrow canyon that crosses Diamond Creek. Includes driving on a bumpy and winding dirt road to the Colorado River.  Activity Rating: 1-2. 

 -Tuition includes transportation, Hualapai permits, box lunch and field instruction. Departs at 7:30AM from Prescott Campus.

*Chino Valley pickup available. 

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Little visited Johnson Canyon begins near Williams and flows along north of I-40 to near Ash Fork.  When the railroad was constructed through the canyon in 1882, two very interesting dams were built, both of which still hold water today.  Stone Dam has beautiful red rock construction, and Bainbridge Dam is made of steel, one of only three steel dams ever built in the entire U.S., and the only one still standing today.  We’ll visit these two remote dams and also Steel Crater, a water-filled sinkhole, and talk about both geology and early railroad history.  The steel dam requires about a mile roundtrip hike over an eroded roadbed. Activity Rating: Level 2. 

Tuition includes transportation, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 8AM from Prescott Campus. 

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Sycamore Canyon enters the Verde River near Clarkdale but begins in the vast Ponderosa Pine forest southeast of Williams. We will travel across to the canyon’s headwaters area from Drake, just north of Chino Valley, visiting JD Dam, Sycamore Point (with incredible views down the canyon), White Horse Lake, and Sycamore Falls, where the creek drops over a hundred feet into the beginnings of the canyon. Our journey will reach I-40 just east of Williams and we’ll return home. Along the way we’ll talk about the geology of the canyon and the varied ecosystems along the way. The trip will include about a mile of easy hiking.  Activity Rating: 2

Tuition includes ground transportation, box lunch, and field instruction. Departs 8AM from Prescott campus.

*Chino Valley pickup available.

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The ancient Sinagua culture, ancestral to the Hopi of Second Mesa, left their picturesque ruins scattered across the landscape east of Flagstaff. Their name comes from the earliest Spanish name for San Francisco Peaks, which they called Sierra Sinagua, meaning waterless peaks. We will visit ruin sites at Walnut Canyon National Monument and Wupatki National Monument, along with visiting the recent volcano of Sunset Crater, which erupted in 1066 A.D. and played a key role in the history of the Sinagua people. We will also visit a small unexcavated site along the way. Many short walks on mostly paved walkways. Activity Rating: 2.

Tuition includes transportation, box lunch, admission fees, and field instruction. Departs 7AM from Prescott campus.

*Camp Verde pick up available.

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When Frank Murphy built his railroad from Ash Fork to Phoenix via Prescott in 1892, near Hell Canyon he chose a route through Limestone Canyon; the route had over 4 miles of wood trestle in six miles of track.  An Ohio man, George Puntenney, then established a limestone mine and lime kilns near these tracks.  In 1907 the Limestone Canyon route was abandoned and the line relocated to a steel bridge over Hell Canyon.  Puntenney then opened a new mine and built a cement plant on the south side of Hell Canyon, creating the community of Puntenney.  In this new half-day trip we’ll visit the ruins of the lime kilns, explore some of the old railroad grade, and visit the Puntenney townsite.  Less than a half-mile of hiking, although some a little rocky and steep. Activity Rating: 2. 

Tuition includes transportation and field instruction. Departs 8AM from Prescott campus. 

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Little Hell Canyon, north of Chino Valley, is actually Hell Canyon, upstream from the high bridge, where the canyon is much smaller.  There are two interesting early transportation-linked sites in the area:  an old stage station site and stage road from the early 1880s and an airmail contractor directional sign from about 1920.  The latter is a very unusual site.  We’ll visit both of these sites in this new half-day trip, as well as stopping by a second old stage stop, incorporated into a residence near Del Rio Ranch.  About a half-mile of walking over mostly easy terrain. Activity Rating: 2. 

Tuition includes transportation and field instruction. Departs 8AM from Prescott campus. 

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The Northern Bradshaw Mountains overlooking Prescott are the highest range in Yavapai County, peaking out near 8,000 feet. We’ll explore south through this region on the old Senator Highway as far as the site of the town of Goodwin, then head east to Mayer and return via Highway 69. Along the way we’ll visit old mining and homestead sites on Wolf Creek, explore the ruins of the Senator Mine, enjoy distant views from the Mt. Union Divide, and other historic and natural features. We’ll also pass though the burn area of the Goodwin fire of 2017 and talk about fire management and the role of fire in the natural ecosystem. The trip will include about two miles of moderate hiking. Expect driving on bumpy, winding roads. Activity Rating: 2

 Tuition includes transportation, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 8 AM from Prescott Campus.

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This road trip takes Williamson Valley Road all the way to Seligman with a return via Ash Fork and Highway 89. We’ll visit the areas of many early historic sites, including the town sites of Simmons and Walnut Creek. On the return from Ash Fork we’ll stop at the old Little Hell Canyon stage stop and a mysterious and unique signpost from the earliest days of air travel in the county. Along the way we’ll discuss the geology and natural history and many aspects of the human history of the area. There will be a few short walks of up to a quarter mile, but no serious hiking. Activity Rating: 2

Tuition includes ground transportation, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 8AM from Prescott Campus.

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