A private 4x4 backcountry tour reaching real off-the-beaten-path stops in both parks.
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).
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.
Genuine, off-the-beaten-path access.
A consistently praised private 4x4 tour.
Genuine highlights across both parks.
Dedicated, genuine expertise for your group only.
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 — 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.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.