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A private 4x4 backcountry tour into Canyonlands' real Island in the Sky district.
A private tour for your group only, aboard a 4x4 — real Colorado River canyon views in Canyonlands' genuine backcountry.
This is a real private half-day tour for your group only, with an experienced driver-guide aboard a 4x4. Real Colorado River canyon views are reached via Canyonlands' backcountry roads. Note: this is a genuinely rough, unpaved backcountry ride — those prone to motion sickness should plan accordingly.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Moab, UT.
A strongly-reviewed private backcountry tour.
Genuine, dramatic backcountry scenery.
Real, dedicated expertise for your group only.
A genuine, bumpy backcountry ride — disclosed honestly.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.
Up to 6
A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.
Up to 14
Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.
Up to 56
Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.
A private tour for your group only, aboard a 4x4 — real Colorado River canyon views in Canyonlands' genuine backcountry. This is a real private half-day tour for your group only, with an experienced driver-guide aboard a 4x4. Real Colorado River canyon views are reached via Canyonlands' backcountry roads. Note: this is a genuinely rough, unpaved backcountry ride — those prone to motion sickness should plan accordingly.
The backcountry 4x4 roads that drop off the Island in the Sky mesa have a real ranching and mining history behind them, not just scenery. The best-known of these, the Shafer Trail, was cut into the cliff face in 1917 by ranchers John and "Sog" Shafer to move cattle between the mesa top and the canyon bottom — in its early years it was carved so narrow that it was barely wide enough for one cow at a time, and cattle occasionally went over the edge. The road was widened in the 1950s, not for tourism but for uranium: the Atomic Energy Commission funded a wave of backcountry road-building across this stretch of the Colorado Plateau to reach uranium claims, most of which produced little ore and were abandoned within a few years.
That era of road-building is also what created the broader backcountry network these 4x4 tours run on, including the White Rim — a bench of pale White Rim Sandstone that wraps for roughly 70 miles below the Island in the Sky mesa, well above the Colorado and Green Rivers. The exact stretch your driver-guide covers on a 4.5-hour tour is only a slice of that full network, not the entire multi-day route (the complete White Rim is typically run as a 2–3 day trip with its own permit system), but it uses the same real roads, the same switchbacking descent off the mesa, and the same honest reason for the bumpy ride the tour's own notes already flag.
Geologically, the drive is a real cross-section of deep time: from the mesa rim down toward the river, the exposed rock layers span roughly 150 million years, with the Island in the Sky mesa itself sitting at an average elevation of about 6,100 feet — over 1,000 feet above the benches and canyons the 4x4 road winds through below it. That combination of sheer cliff-edge road engineering and genuinely old, layered rock is what gives this specific corner of Canyonlands its reputation, distinct from the park's gentler paved overlooks.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
