Southwest Adventure Tours

Southwest Adventure Tours provided my wife and me and tremendous vacation experience. My wife and I had always wanted to take a tour of the National Parks located in the Southwest. The year of Covid-19 seemed like a good opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors. Our local travel agent wasn’t very familiar with the Southwest region. I googled tours of the southwest and found Southwest Adventure Tours (SAT) and started corresponding with them. I gave them some basic information of what we wanted to do, how we wanted to do it, and how many days we wanted to spend on the road (in our case 12 days). SAT developed a tour of the southwest that was customized for us. They were friendly, informative, and very responsive to our questions. Because SAT is familiar with the region, they not only provided us with an itinerary for the national parks but made additional helpful suggestions for additional places to go and see; national monuments, state parks, museums, scenic drives, etc. They provided a detailed itinerary which included our airline flights, a rental car, hotels, driving directions, park information, etc. All this information was contained on an App that we could download to our phones. Therefore, we always had all the information with us in a convenient place and format. We spent twelve days exploring the beautiful southwest doing it “our” way. Many thanks to the Southwest Adventure Tours team for a truly “once in a lifetime” experience.

I did the Grand Circle Experience and thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though I am not AT ALL a serious hiker, the hikes were well worth the amazing scenery. Our guide seemed to know every mile of road like the back of his hand, and he went out of his way to find better alternatives when some of our destinations were closed due to COVID. If you are planning to visit the national parks of the southwest, I highly recommend this tour.

I was so glad to hear about this service. The shuttle through recreation.gov was sold out so we thought we'd have to walk. I loved that it was a smaller shuttle with AC, as it was a little warm when we went. The drivers were all nice and very informative.

We rented boots and walking sticks for only $25. We were blown away by the quality of the products that they offered. The water boots and walking sticks were high quality and worth every penny. We highly recommend them.

The lady at the zion shuttle told us it was 3 dollars per person to take the shuttle up to the point we wanted. The emerald pools. Now 3 dollars sounds fair they go up every half hour with large groups of people and bring them back down when they are done. Fair price for a basic service right? No they lie to you and tell you 3 dollars then charge you 30 dollars per person instead. 30 dollars to take you in a shuttle that you have to take because if the free zion shuttle is sold out you can't go. This is a rip off and a half. Deceptive people at the ticket booth and they don't offer a receipt ( to save paper) but don't email you your receipt either. Hmmm sounds like trickery is afoot here. Don't use this company as they are just ripping you off. Sign up to get on the zion approved shuttle and don't trust a third party.