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11/10/2026

The best part of this morning happens 4,000 feet below the rim.

After hotel pickup, you'll head to the Boulder City terminal and board an EC-130 helicopter. The flights we book cross Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, then the Grand Wash Cliffs, before your pilot brings you down into the West Rim of the canyon.

Then you land. You get about 30 minutes on the canyon floor, with ch*****ne and a light picnic under a shaded ramada and canyon walls rising on every side.

The whole trip runs about 4.5 hours hotel to hotel (that's an estimate), so you're back on the Strip with plenty of the day left. One tip: seats are assigned for weight balance, so a specific seat can't be guaranteed.

Seeing the canyon from the rim is great. Standing on its floor with a glass in hand is a different kind of quiet.

11/09/2026

This Wednesday, November 11, is Veterans Day, and it's one of this year's fee-free days at national parks, including Grand Canyon National Park. For 2026, the Department of the Interior says free entry on these dates applies to U.S. residents.

Fee-free days cover National Park Service entrance fees, so Grand Canyon West (run by the Hualapai Tribe) sets its own admission as usual.

And to every veteran who's stood at the rim and taken it all in: thank you for your service. From all of us at Canyon Tours.

11/08/2026

Before the neon, there was water.

Spanish travelers called this valley las vegas, Spanish for "the meadows," after the green wetlands fed by its springs. A trading party led by Antonio Armijo, with scout Rafael Rivera, came through in 1829 while looking for a route from Santa Fe to Los Angeles.

In 1855, Mormon missionaries built a fort along a spring-fed creek, the first permanent non-native settlement in the valley. Its remains are still here at Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park.

Those same springs are why the railroad came to town. Las Vegas was officially founded on May 15, 1905, and incorporated in 1911.

So the next time someone calls it a desert town, you can tell them it started as a meadow.

11/07/2026

Our Bryce Canyon and Zion day starts well before sunrise. Pickup is about an hour before the 5:30am tour time at select Strip hotels, and by then the coach is already stocked with bottled water and granola bars for the road.

From there it's the Virgin River Gorge, a stop at the Zion visitor center, the drive through the Zion-Mount Carmel tunnel, and a photo stop at Checkerboard Mesa before we head on to Bryce and its hoodoo-lined rim trails. It's about 13 hours hotel to hotel, and we handle the driving, the timing, and getting you back to your hotel.

We've been running tours out of Las Vegas for more than 20 years, and this is one of the longest days we do. Two national parks in one day is a lot of road, and letting someone else take the wheel is what makes it feel easy. Pack a warm layer for Bryce this time of year, and the rest is on us.

11/06/2026

A few Grand Canyon numbers from the National Park Service that are hard to picture until you're standing on the rim:

It's 278 river miles long.
It averages about 10 miles across, rim to rim. At its widest it stretches to 18 miles, and at Marble Canyon it narrows to just 600 feet.
It's about a mile deep on average.
The park covers 1,218,375 acres, or 1,904 square miles.
The North Rim averages around 8,000 feet in elevation, a full 1,000 feet higher than the South Rim at about 7,000.

And in 2025, 4,430,653 people came to see it for themselves.

Which one surprised you most?

11/05/2026

In Las Vegas for the Grand Prix, November 19 to 21? The racing happens after dark, which leaves your days wide open.

Our new guide walks through how to fit a Grand Canyon day around race weekend. The short version: pick a daytime slot that isn't a race evening, take a morning departure so you're back before the evening road closures and crowds, and skip the rental car, since the track build closes sections of the Strip and nearby streets. Hotel pickup is included on our coach tours, so you're not the one working around the closures. Just reconfirm with your hotel and room number the day before.

The West Rim is the closest rim, about two hours out, and it's the easiest full day. If you get in early in the week, the South Rim works too.

The full guide has more on picking your day, plus half-day options closer to town if you'd rather stay near the Strip.

11/04/2026

“The whole experience was seamless from pick up to drop off! So glad I went with this company.”

Katie O., 5-star Google review https://www.canyontours.com/antelope-canyon-horseshoe-bend-tour/

Pick up to drop off covers a lot of ground on our Page day: a 5:30 a.m. tour time, a hotel pickup about an hour before that, and roughly 14 hours before you're back. Making that stretch feel easy is the part of the job we've been working on for more than 20 years.

In between, you ride out through the Mojave, the Virgin River Gorge, and Glen Canyon to Page, choose your slot canyon (Canyon X, Lower, or Upper Antelope), and then walk out to the Horseshoe Bend overlook.

Thanks, Katie. If Antelope Canyon has been on your list, we'll handle the getting there.

11/03/2026

Here's a South Rim day that starts with a short ride to Boulder City and a window seat.

The flights we book leave Boulder City for a 65-minute fixed-wing hop to Grand Canyon South Airport, with Lake Mead and Hoover Dam passing under the wing on the way out. On the ground you switch to an open-air, 13-passenger Hummer for a two-hour guided run inside the national park. Stops may include Yavapai Point, Moran Point, and Duck on a Rock, depending on the day.

A box lunch is part of it, and a complimentary shuttle from your Strip hotel to the air terminal gets the whole thing started. Plan on about 9.5 hours hotel to hotel; weather and FAA routing can shift that. Bring a jacket, since it's November on the rim.

If the long drive is what's kept you from the South Rim, this is the version that hands you those hours back.

11/02/2026

Las Vegas fell back an hour on Sunday. Most of Arizona didn't, because it never springs forward in the first place.

So from now until Sunday, March 14, 2027, Vegas and Grand Canyon National Park are on the same clock. No mental math between your hotel and the rim, and no wondering why your phone just changed its mind at the state line.

The trade-off: Vegas sunsets now land around 4:40 p.m. in early November. If you're headed to a viewpoint, out at the canyon or around town, plan to be in place by mid-afternoon for the long, low light.

Enjoy that extra hour of sleep you got this weekend.

11/01/2026

Hoover Dam by the numbers, for anyone heading out that way this week.

It stands 726.4 feet from foundation rock to the roadway on its crest. Crews placed the first concrete on June 6, 1933, and the last on May 29, 1935, in less than two years. The dam holds about three and a quarter million cubic yards of concrete, enough, by the Bureau of Reclamation's math, to pave a standard 16-foot-wide highway from San Francisco to New York City.

It took people, too. A total of 21,000 men worked on the dam, with as many as 5,218 on the job in a single day in June 1934.

The Visitor Center and tours run daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. if you want to see the inside for yourself. Happy Sunday from Canyon Tours.

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Wednesday	6am - 10pm
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Saturday	6am - 10pm
Sunday	6am - 10pm

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