Discover The Wild West (LA – Las Vegas) – Guided Motorcycle Tour

Depart the UK on your chosen scheduled flight to Los Angeles, California. Upon arrival, independently make your way to your hotel, where you spend the first night of your adventure.

Today you will get to meet your fellow riders and Tour Leaders. Your guides will outline the entire tour in a formal Orientation Meeting, covering topics like safe group riding practices, weather, time-management, etc. Afterwards you have time at leisure to explore L.A.’s night life in Hollywood or Santa Monica or just get a goodnight sleep and get ready for the first day’s ride tomorrow!

After your welcome breakfast the moment has come – you will get transferred to EagleRider in Los Angeles to pick-up your bike. After an orientation you’ll head south and west to ride the winding mountain road down to Lake Elsinore. After lunch, the cool air bathes you as you wind your way up more mountainous roads into the San Bernardino National Forest, skirting the slopes of San Jacinto Mountain. Your descent into Palm Springs is spectacular, and you will enjoy your first night on the road among the Palm Trees and night life that make up this iconic town.

Today you take a loop through Joshua Tree National Park an extraordinary park full of bizarre desert trees and fantastic rock formations. From here you descend into Twenty-Nine Palms and drop into the vastness of the Mojave Desert. From here, your trip gets legendary appeal, as you enter Historic Route 66 in at the famous Roys in Amboy. You will stay on RT 66 for the rest of the day as you cross the desert, and the state line, into Nevada, and arrive in Laughlin, where you overnight.

You’ll continue your ride on the legendary Route 66 into Arizona, stop for wild animals in Oatman and ride further on to Kingman, which is considered to be “The heart of Historic Route 66”, as it’s situated in the middle of the longest remaining stretch of the old “Mother Road”. From Kingman you head for Seligman, another one of the longest surviving stretches of Route 66, which heads off in a northern loop through the Hualapai Indian Reservation. After your lunch stop in Seligman you continue your ride towards the majestic Grand Canyon; be prepared for one of the greatest sights man has ever seen!

You spend the morning at the Grand Canyon to get some fantastic views. Then you’ll cruise along the South Rim for a few miles and leave Grand Canyon National Park at the East entrance. Now it’s off to the incredible Monument Valley. This is Navajo Country here a classic Wild West landscape of stark sandstone buttes and forbidding pinnacles of rock, poking from an endless expanse of drifting red sands. Only when you arrive at Monument Valley will you come to realize how much your perception of the West has in fact been shaped by this one spot. Such scenery does exist elsewhere, of course, but nowhere is it so perfectly distilled. This evening you will be provided with the option to descend into the Valley itself and let the Navajo Guides treat you to stories of life in the heart of this spiritual wonderland.

From Kayenta you will ride up to sleepy Mexican Hat, briefly a frenzied gold-mining camp, which takes its name from a riverside sandstone hoodoo – it actually looks like a south-of-the-border sombrero. You ride past the Valley of the Gods, where much of the movie “Thelma and Louise” was filmed, and cross the Colorado River where it pours into Lake Powell. Lake Powell has 1960 miles of shoreline, which is more than the entire Pacific Coast and 96 water-filled side canyons. You ride along the southern tip of Capitol Reef National Park, across aspen-covered peaks, along the buff-colored sandstones of the Devil’s Backbone, through the Escalante Wilderness, and finally to Bryce Canyon, where we overnight. This is a day you’ll never forget!

This morning there will be time to visit the amazing Bryce Canyon before you continue to Zion National Park. Besides seeing the most beautiful rock formations found anywhere on earth, you are in for a most stunning ride along the switchbacks of Zion! From Zion it is only a short ride into the neon and gambling oasis of Las Vegas. You will stay in beautiful downtown Vegas, and later tonight you will gather together for your final “Good Bye” Dinner.

Today your exciting trip will conclude in Las Vegas. You may choose to extend your stay or discover more of Nevada. Otherwise, you make your own way to Las Vegas International Airport and check in for your flight back to the UK.