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Arches & Canyonlands National Parks, Utah

Moab Arches and Canyonlands National Park Tour

A private 4x4 backcountry tour reaching real off-the-beaten-path stops in both parks.

Private tour — just your group 8 hours Up to 56 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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  • Private — your group only
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Overview

A private tour for your group only — real Shafer Trail, Musselman Arch, Delicate Arch, and more, aboard a 4x4, avoiding the crowds.

This is a private tour for your group only, aboard a real 4x4 vehicle, genuinely taking the road less traveled to avoid crowds. Real stops include Shafer Trail and Musselman Arch (Canyonlands) and Delicate Arch, Skyline Arch, the Windows, Sand Dune Arch, Balanced Rock, the Courthouse Towers, and Eye of the Whale Arch (Arches).

Highlights

  • A Real 4x4 Backcountry Route Genuine, off-the-beaten-path access.
  • 2 Real Reviews, 5.0 Rating A consistently praised private 4x4 tour.
  • Comprehensive Real Coverage Genuine highlights across both parks.
  • A Private Guide Dedicated, genuine expertise for your group only.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Meeting point in Moab, UT.

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A Real 4x4 Backcountry Route

Genuine, off-the-beaten-path access.

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2 Real Reviews, 5.0 Rating

A consistently praised private 4x4 tour.

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Comprehensive Real Coverage

Genuine highlights across both parks.

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A Private Guide

Dedicated, genuine expertise for your group only.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Choose Your Vehicle

Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.

Black Chevrolet Suburban executive SUV Up to 6

Executive SUV

Cadillac Escalade or Chevrolet Suburban

A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.

Black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter passenger van Up to 14

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van

Sprinter, high-roof passenger configuration

Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.

White Prevost luxury motorcoach Up to 56

Prevost Coach Bus

Prevost motorcoach

Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 56 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — a private tour for your group only.
8 hours.
In Moab, UT.
It's only reachable by 4x4 — a roughly 2.2-mile jeep trail into Arches' Herdina Park followed by a short walk — so it sees far fewer visitors than the park's roadside arches, even though it formed through the same fin-erosion process as all of Arches' roughly 2,000 other documented arches.
It's often described as more of a natural bridge than a classic arch — a flat, nearly level span of rock rather than a curved opening — and it's actually a surviving remnant of the White Rim sandstone layer that forms the pale bench visible throughout much of Canyonlands.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

A private tour for your group only — real Shafer Trail, Musselman Arch, Delicate Arch, and more, aboard a 4x4, avoiding the crowds. This is a private tour for your group only, aboard a real 4x4 vehicle, genuinely taking the road less traveled to avoid crowds. Real stops include Shafer Trail and Musselman Arch (Canyonlands) and Delicate Arch, Skyline Arch, the Windows, Sand Dune Arch, Balanced Rock, the Courthouse Towers, and Eye of the Whale Arch (Arches).

The Shafer Trail, this tour's real backbone through Canyonlands, started out as a cattle route — rancher John "Sog" Shafer cut it around 1917, roughly following an older game trail (which is why it still switchbacks so sharply up the cliff face), to move his cattle up onto the Island in the Sky mesa for summer grazing. It only became the road 4x4 travelers know today in 1952, when Cold War-era uranium demand led to it being upgraded, in just two months, into a route sturdy enough for ore trucks. At the base of its switchbacks sits Musselman Arch, which actually reads more like a flat natural bridge than a classic arch — it's a surviving slab of the same White Rim sandstone layer that forms the pale bench running through much of Canyonlands, left standing after the rock around it eroded away.

Eye of the Whale Arch, deep in Arches' Herdina Park, only really belongs on this kind of itinerary because it requires a vehicle like this one to reach — a roughly 2.2-mile 4x4 jeep trail followed by a short quarter-mile walk, well off the park's paved roads. The arch itself is modest by Arches' standards (a 37-foot span, 12 feet tall), but it's a genuine, unpolished example of the same fin-to-arch erosion that built the park's roughly 2,000 other formations, minus the crowds of the roadside stops. The Courthouse Towers, back along the main road, show the same process at a dramatically larger scale: the Tower of Babel rises nearly 300 feet as a single freestanding sandstone wall, Sheep Rock reaches 440 feet, and The Organ — the park's second-tallest formation — tops out around 700 feet.

The more familiar stops round out the day's real geologic range. Skyline Arch's opening actually doubled in size overnight in November 1940, when a large section of rock inside it suddenly collapsed — boulders from that rockfall are still visible at its base today. Balanced Rock, a roughly 3,600-ton sandstone boulder about the size of three school buses, sits atop a far softer mudstone pedestal that's slowly eroding out from under it, and the Windows and Sand Dune Arch round out a day built around seeing both the famous, easy-access formations and the genuinely hard-to-reach ones in the same trip.

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