Utah & Arizona Road Trip Itinerary
+ Top Attractions

Las Vegas is frequently hailed as the entertainment capital of the world, hosting an array of casinos, shows and performances, clubs and music festivals, and many other activities.

The Las Vegas Strip is a massive boulevard lined with countless themed mega-casinos, many of which are incredible and worth admiring. These casinos recreate the canals of Venice, the skyscrapers of New York, the ancient Roman Forum, the Great Pyramid and Sphinx of Egypt, and even a half-sized replica of the Eiffel Tower, among many other marvels such as a pirate ship bay and a volcano. The Strip also hosts the world's largest Ferris wheel, the 550 foot (170 m) tall High Roller.

Beyond the Las Vegas Strip is the outdoor Neon Museum of the city's old neon signs, as well as a zipline over the LED canopy-covered Fremont Street, the city's Old Las Vegas Strip. In the mountains west of Las Vegas are several gorgeous hiking trails including Red Rock Canyon, First Creek, and Pine Creek. On the eastern outskirts of the city is the iconic Hoover Dam.

Zion National Park is centered around the majestic red rock Zion Canyon, which is surrounded by many incredible natural features. The Virgin River flows through this lush canyon which is filled with abundant wildlife such as elk, deer, and turkeys that you're quite likely to see. The canyon walls are up to 0.5 miles (0.8 km) tall and are very impressive.

Bryce Canyon is a truly unique and incredible landscape, which is riddles with hoodoo formations and natural amphitheaters amongst a vast red rock area with dense forests and a good chance of observing wildlife.

Most of the sights within the park are along Highway 63, which travels south from the town of Bryce into the park, gaining in elevation as you make you way up the plateau with countless viewpoints along the way. This highway passes many stunningly gorgeous overlooks, including Fairyland Point, Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point, Bryce Point, and Rainbow Point all the way at the top of the plateau.

Bryce Canyon's most popular hiking trail is a combination of the Queens Garden and Navajo Loop Trail which journey through these mystical hoodoo formations. A longer route passing many mesmerizing formations is the Fairyland Loop Trail, which ventures around a different hoodoo amphitheater.

Capitol Reef National Park is frequently combined with a visit to nearby Goblin Valley State Park, a strange and stunning landscape of countless mushroom-shaped hoodoo formations which resembles an alien planet and has been the setting for such in movies and TV shows.

Canyonlands is a vast national park carved out by the Green River and Colorado River (upstream from the Grand Canyon) that contains many unique natural formations amongst the mesas, buttes, and canyons that make up this gorgeous landscape.

A majority of the park's best and most easily accessible sights are located in the Island in the Sky District of the park near Moab. This area is a giant towering plateau which is almost completely surrounded by winding rivers and canyons, essentially creating an island.

Arches National Park is home to the largest concentration of natural arches on Earth, along with many other unique rock formations surround by picturesque scenery and red rock. Both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks are adjacent to the city of Moab.

Visit Monument Valley, a stunning desert landscape with massive sandstone buttes and mesas that rise above rise high above the valley floor. This valley has been featured in many films and TV shows as an idyllic portrayal of the great American Southwest. Monument Valley sits along the border of Arizona and Utah and is a Navajo Tribal Park.

The best way to see the valley is to drive along the smooth 17 mile (27.5 km) dirt road loop, which is incredibly scenic offering many viewpoints along the way (and can be traversed by almost any vehicle). Within the park you'll find the iconic John Ford Point, countless stunning formations, as well as beautiful and inexpensive handmade Navajo jewelry and crafts. The park's only hiking trail is the Wildcat Trail, which loops around the Sentinel Mesa.

Consider booking a Navajo-led tour to see the picturesque Lower Monument Valley, as well as several arches, Anasazi ruins, and petroglyphs. This section of Monument Valley is only accessible via guided tour and contains many scenic and highly picturesque sights.

This remote area of Arizona hosts the Petrified Forest National Park, a vast scenic area of colorful hills and ancient petrified wood fossils that are over 200 million years old. The landscape of the national park is part of the beautiful Painted Desert.

This national park is known for its surreal landscapes, such as the Crystal Forest Trail which is full of countless crystallized ancient logs. Also incredible is the Blue Mesa Trail, named for its fantasy-like bluish-purple colored barren desert hills.

This beautiful city in Northern Arizona is surrounded by striking red rock scenery and formations in every direction with countless opportunities for hiking and outdoor activities. The city of Sedona is very lovely and features many great restaurants, resorts, and art galleries, as well as many interesting shops selling unique decorations, art, crystals, and new age/metaphysical items.

The city hosts the Chapel of the Holy Cross, a church aesthetically built into the red rock cliffs offering gorgeous panoramic views, as well as the Amitabha Stupa Buddhist shrine. The Sedona area hosts several spots which are said to be energy vortexes, including the Airport Mesa Vortex (which offers striking views) and the Boynton Pass Vortex.

The South Rim of the Grand Canyon is the main tourist destination within the massive Grand Canyon National Park. This area is very well-developed and features over 20 miles (32 km) of easily accessible viewpoints along the rim, each one offering a different perspective.

At the western entrance to the park is Grand Canyon Village, a small town located along the rim hosting hotels, camping, restaurants, and the visitor center, as well as the park’s most popular and easily-accessible viewpoints, Mather Point and Yavapi Point.

The city of Page is located in Northern Arizona very close to the Utah border and the extremely scenic Lake Powell, in an area of immense natural beauty. Page is surrounded by stunning geological formations such as the gorgeous Horseshoe Bend, a massive and picturesque canyon bend in the Colorado River that's approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) tall.

Just east of Page are the iconic Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons, which consist of incredibly beautiful winding red slot canyons. Upper Antelope Canyon is known for the famous beams of light that shine into the canyon, however both canyons are extremely scenic and used in images such as screensavers around the world.

Around Page you'll find many other mesmerizing places, some of which are only accessible via special tours, such as Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Secret Canyon, and X Canyon.