No other natural attraction draws more awe and amazement than the Grand Canyon. Escape Adventures is pleased to offer several mountain bike tour options to explore this historic piece of beauty.
While nearly all of North America reels under hot summertime temperatures, the North Rim, at 9000-feet, offers delightfully cool, high altitudes escape.
A raw-cut jewel in our national park system if not one of the most awe-inspiring features on Earth, the Grand Canyon’s incomparable majesty sunders nearly 280-miles of Northern Arizona highlands.
No less than two-billion years of the earth’s history is on display here in the vermillion cliff-faces and golden canyon walls that rise a mile into the sky. From his dory that plied the unbridled Colorado River, early explorer Major John Wesley Powell compared it to “leaves in a great history book.”
This geologic virtuoso, one of America’s first national parks, was one of our three original trip destinations. Gazing over the Canyon’s 9,200-ft North Rim, the immediate reaction of our guests runs from fear to reverie, and all agree that the old Arizona and Rainbow Rim Trails are the best ways to experience the Grand Canyon.
Concealed in big Ponderosa pine and shimmering Aspen groves, our trail through Kaibab National Forest wends to a place that few have visited: the East Rim View. From our campsite on the edge of the Kaibab Plateau, we savor extraordinary views. Trails brimming with wildflowers bring us to exhilarating hikes along the rim. Crossing over to the west side of the plateau, we camp alongside one of the most scenic mountain bike paths in the world, the Rainbow Rim Trail.
Providing gently rolling terrain of lung-expanding dimensions, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has been long-held as almost sacred ground to hikers and cyclists. For trekkers and active travelers of all levels, the chance to experience this singular section of Eternity is nothing less than the opportunity of a lifetime.
For information on a 4-Day Mountain Bike Tour of the Grand Canyon, click HERE. For information on a 5-Day Grand Canyon Mountain Bike Tour, click HERE.
Since 1992, we at Escape Adventures have been blessed to shape and lead adventure travel vacations through some of the most awe-inspiring natural destinations in the world. Each successive season, our passion for adventure grows through memorable moments with our guests. Fresh air, faith, fitness and friends are the building blocks for our ventures, the treasured experiences that keep us moving forward. For those of you who have trekked and traveled with us over the past quarter century, Heather and I express our sincerest gratitude. The memories are priceless.
