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Travel the back roads to Phoenix as we explore the Agua Fria National Monument, crossing through Bloody Basin and on to Seven Springs. We will explore prehistoric ruins, take short hikes, bask in the riparian areas, and experience the variety of geology and ecosystems as you travel from the high desert to the Sonoran Desert. Geology, prehistoric history, and natural history will be topics of the day. Hiking up to 1 mile at Pueblo la Plata and Sears-Kay prehistoric ruins. End the day with dinner (on your own) at El Encanto Restaurant in Cave Creek. Activity Rating: Level 2 (travel on rough roads).

Instructor: Chris Wuehrmann

$215 per person – Tuition includes transportation, admission fees, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 7AM from Prescott Campus.

*Cordes Junction pickup available.

Activity Rating: 2
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Travel the back roads to Phoenix as we explore the Agua Fria National Monument, crossing through Bloody Basin and on to Seven Springs. We will explore prehistoric ruins, take short hikes, bask in the riparian areas, and experience the variety of geology and ecosystems as you travel from the high desert to the Sonoran Desert. Geology, prehistoric history, and natural history will be topics of the day. Hiking up to 1 mile at Pueblo la Plata and Sears-Kay prehistoric ruins. End the day with dinner (on your own) at El Encanto Restaurant in Cave Creek. Activity Rating: Level 2 (travel on rough roads).

Instructor: Chris Wuehrmann

$215 per person – Tuition includes transportation, admission fees, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 7AM from Prescott Campus.

*Cordes Junction pickup available.

Activity Rating: 2
View Refund/Cancellation Policy.

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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Canyon de Chelly, an amazing other-worldly landscape of 800-foot tall red cliffs, includes spectacular cliff dwellings and mystical rock art from centuries in the past.  The canyon was once home to the ancestral Hopi and today sustains a living community of Navajo (the Dine’) living in spiritual connection with this beautiful landscape.  We’ll tour the canyon’s south rim, viewing its beauty from above, and also take a 4x4 tour into the canyon with Navajo guides who will share their stories with us.  During our journey there and back, we’ll visit Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, and historic Hubbell Trading Post as well as traveling paved back road across Navajo land (Dinetlah).  A fair amount of walkng is included, some optional, but all on easy terrain. 

Activity Rating: 1-2

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Tonto Natural Bridge, under the Mogollon Rim north of Payson, is one of the more unusual features of Arizona. The bridge, somewhat more a huge natural tunnel, is 150 feet wide, nearly 200 feet tall, and 400 feet long. Several trails thread their way through and around the bridge. We’ll hike these trails, somewhat flexible on distance, exploring the bridge and its environs and have our lunch at the picnic area there. We’ll also see the historic Goodfellow Lodge adjacent to the bridge, dating from the 1920s. Our journey there and back will feature spectacular views from the Mogollon Rim, an historic stone mileage marker from the original General Crook Trail, and a visit to the historic Strawberry one-room schoolhouse. Activity Rating: 2.  

Tuition includes transportation, box lunch and field instruction. Departs 7:30AM from Prescott Campus. *Camp Verde pickup available. 

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Spend a day with us as we travel Historic Route 66, “The Mother Road” from Ash Fork to the Colorado River at Topock, at 145 miles the longest single surviving stretch of this road that once conncected Chicago, Illinois, with Santa Monica, California.  We’ll stop at many historic sites, old bridges, roadside attractions, the Historic Route 66 Museum in Kingman (where we’ll have lunch) and the old town of Oatman, where wild burros wander the streets.  Along the way we’ll dicusss the history of transportation across northern Arizona.  Activity Rating: 1.

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

*Chino Valley pickup available.


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Reserve at least two weeks in advance.

Spend a day with us as we travel Historic Route 66, “The Mother Road” from Ash Fork to the Colorado River at Topock, at 145 miles the longest single surviving stretch of this road that once conncected Chicago, Illinois, with Santa Monica, California.  We’ll stop at many historic sites, old bridges, roadside attractions, the Historic Route 66 Museum in Kingman (where we’ll have lunch) and the old town of Oatman, where wild burros wander the streets.  Along the way we’ll dicusss the history of transportation across northern Arizona.  Activity Rating: 1.

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

*Chino Valley pickup available.


View Refund/Cancellation Policy.