Detailed Itinerary: click here
Focus: Hiking, Canyoneering Glamping, Mindfulness
Difficulty: Level 3 of 5, learn more
Group Makeup: 8 spots available, all genders, all ages (usually our trip average age is 30’s-60’s), mostly solo travelers (but pairs and small groups welcome!)
Tour Leader: James Freeman & Carisa Bañuelos
Deposit: $500 due to hold your spot, custom payment plans available!
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Come adventure with us in the awe-inspiring expansiveness of the desert, where we’ll use the natural landscape as a tool for self-reflection to access the powerful aliveness within. If you feel far removed from the spark of life, then this adventure will help you feel re-invigorated.
Four knowledgeable guides will lead you on an incredible exploration of two of the most magnificent National Parks - Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. Your home base will be beautiful yurt-style glamping accommodations with plenty of time to rest, reflect, and reconnect with nature.
During the day you'll be out hiking and exploring, taking in epic views with stunning backdrops. Top it all off with the addition of slow quiet sunrises, magnificently stunning sunsets, and delicious meals to keep you fueled and ready for each day's adventure.
The big adventure of this trip is a 1/2 day canyoneering experience where you will explore the magic of sculpted chasms, washes and gullies, and plunge into hidden slot canyons only accessible by rope.
As you hike and explore the natural landscape, you’ll be led in mindfulness practices that will help you come back to the present and appreciate the adventure in each moment. When we slow down, we can observe the natural landscape and make deeper connections to our own lives. Inspired by the sandstone and arches surrounding us, we can reflect on both the erosive forces that deplete us and the resilient internal landscapes that are left standing.
At the end of your trip you’ll have a better sense of the vivid forces in your life and how to proceed forward with a renewed sense of self! Your mindfulness experts will give you plenty of ideas for incorporating your practices from the trip back into your daily life at home.
We provide a full service experience. Included in your trip cost is:
Transportation: All transportation is included from arrival at the Salt Lake City (SLC) Airport to the return to airport.
Food: All food from lunch day 1 until breakfast on day 5 is included as outlined in the itinerary.
Accommodation: Hotel (1 night - double occupancy), glamping (3 nights - double/triple occupancy) accommodation
Equipment: We will provide all group gear as well as sleeping bag rental. Trip participants will be responsible for providing their own hiking clothing, rain gear, day packs, and sturdy hiking footwear, a packing list will be provided.
Park entry fees
2 Local guides who have current Advanced Wilderness First Aid Certificates.
2 Root Expert Tour Leaders who will facilitate mindfulness/wellness practices
Daily mindfulness activities/sessions
Individual pre-trip support as needed
2 pre-trip calls
2 post trip calls
Access to our Director of Traveler Experience who can help answer all your questions!
All tips/gratuities
6 Week Post-Trip Meditation Series to help integrate your experience
Lifetime access to the Root Community
Travel insurance
Flights costs
Please arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC) by 11am on April 28th. Departure from SLC any time after 4:00pm on May 2nd.
If you need assistance booking your flights reach out to us directly, [email protected].
A: Yes we do offer customizable payment plans!
All that is due at the time of sign up is a $500 deposit to reserve your spot.
Our goal is to provide unique and once-in-a-lifetime experiences while paying our local guides and tour leaders fairly and boosting the local economies that we visit. We also want to make sure that our trips are financial available to those who are interested in traveling in a conscious and intentional way, which is why we offer customizable payment plans.
Please call 765-418-0571 or email [email protected] to inquire about how we can help you make this trip a reality.
A: Absolutely! We are here to make everything for your trip, including planning, go as smoothly as possible.
Once you secure your spot on the trip with your deposit, we can help you navigate flights and travel and answer any other questions you have about the trip including what to pack, what to expect, any fears you might have and more.
We are a real company with a real human being just like you at the other end of your phone, text, or email - no call centers or un-caring customer service representatives. We are mindfulness practioners and teachers who truly want to know about you and how we can help make this an incredible experience for you.
A: It’s very important to Root Adventures that our trips include mindful components. This might be yoga, meditation, journaling or other transformational activities. Every day we will have intentional practice and connect to nature, however this trip is for you!
We encourage you to take time to rest, unplug, and do what feels right for you.
Our wellness guides have decades of experience in transformative group work and are trained in inclusivity to ensure that experiences are accessible to all.
New to mindfulness or wellness practices? Not to fret! You will be provided with a pre-trip guide that will walk you through components of mindfulness practice if you're new to it all! We love beginners and always hope to create a space where we can return to our child-like selves, seeing everything as if for the first time.
A: Yes. Each trip has two pre-trip calls via Zoom. One will be about a month before departure and the second about a week before departure. You will have a chance to meet the other participants, the tour leader, and ask all remaining questions that you might have.
In addition you will receive packing lists, a pre-trip guide to prepare for your trip, and access to our mindfulness-trained Director of Traveler Experience. She is here to help you with any pre-trip questions and planning that you need.
After your trip there will be 2 post-trip Zoom calls with your tour leaders as well as a post-trip integration guide that will help you ease back into life and keep the magic of the trip going!
You’ll arrive in Salt Lake City by the early afternoon before meeting your group and guides for a lunch in town at a local brewery!
After full bellies and initial conversation you and your group will make the 4-hour transfer to Moab. Along the drive, watch as the towering mountain peaks fade away and you transform to the desert landscape.
Upon arrival, you’ll check into your glamping as you sleep beneath the stars!
Accommodations: Glamping
Meals: L, D
Arches National Park, the highest density of Arches in the world- with over 2,000!
Today you’ll spend the day on the trails of Arches taking a guided tour and hike. Immerse yourself in towers, buttes, arches and more as you take in the red rock county. Whether you’re looking for a strenuous hike or a leisurely walk your guides will customize the day to get everyone’s needs met!
Enjoy a picnic lunch midday inside Arches National Park
Accommodations: Glamping
Meals: B, L, D
Enjoy Moab from a new perspective today via canyoneering! We’ll adventure through various remote areas and wild canyons. You can expect to spend half the day hiking, rappelling, down-climbing, and stemming! A true Moab adventure!
This is a beginner friendly experience!
In the afternoon, we’ll find ourselves on a short hike either in Arches or Dead Horse!
Accommodations: Glamping
Meals: B, L, D
Canyonlands National Park comprises 4 different districts over 300,000 acres.
Today you’ll explore a second District- The Island in the Sky! You and your group will spend the full day on the trails leisurely exploring arches, buttes, mesas and more!
You’ll be rewarded with never ending views overlooking the Colorado River!
In the evening, you’ll check into a much needed hotel, right in downtown Moab. Enjoy a farewell dinner with your group at one of the delicious restaurants in town.
Accommodations: Hotel
Meals: B, L, D
After having a leisurely farewell breakfast, your guides will transfer you back to Salt Lake City for your departing flight.
You’ll say “until next time” as you leave the desert behind.
Meals: B
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