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Moab Desert Canyoneering: Private 3/4 Day Tour
5.0
28 Ratings
Moab
Discover hidden canyons in Moab with expert guides. Experience thrilling descents, learn local geology, and explore inaccessible areas. Book your adventure today.
Discover hidden canyons in Moab with expert guides. Experience thrilling descents, learn local geology, and explore inaccessible areas. Book your adventure today.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Moab - Arrive at Desert Highlights where your guide will outfit you with all of the necessary gear and drive your group to the start of the canyon. We’ll hike, climb, and scramble up to the top of a canyon to reach an expansive area covered in ancient sand dunes. We’ll hike across these dunes to reach our canyon where we’ll stage our first rappel…
- Moab - Arrive at Desert Highlights where your guide will outfit you with all of the necessary gear and drive your group to the start of the canyon. We’ll hike, climb, and scramble up to the top of a canyon to reach an expansive area covered in ancient sand dunes. We’ll hike across these dunes to reach our canyon where we’ll stage our first rappel - a nice, 30 foot drop that serves as an excellent intro to rappelling. Desert Highlights has experienced and knowledgeable guides that will literally “show you the ropes”, ensuring your safety and teaching you everything you need to know to descend the canyon safely. From here, we’ll make our way through a short, but beautiful cork-screw slot and enjoy a nice, big ledge atop our final rappel - a 220 foot descent! With competent leadership, this rappel is a safe and exciting way to end the day!
This tour is suitable for adventurous beginners and experienced canyoneers alike. We are extremely passionate about our backyard and you’ll gain knowledge and respect for our desert environment while out on your Moab canyoneering adventure! This tour typically lasts anywhere from 6 to 8 hours.
What's Included
- All necessary canyoneering gear including harness and helmet
- Professional, experienced and fun guide
- Private tour and personalized attention
- All necessary canyoneering gear including harness and helmet
- Professional, experienced and fun guide
- Private tour and personalized attention
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Lunch
- Bottled water
- Gratuities
- Lunch
- Bottled water
Additional Information
Desert Highlights takes the lead in offering original canyoneering guide services in Moab. Our full-day canyoneering adventure is based on a route designed by the founder of Desert Highlights in the late 1990s as a challenging route for guided canyoneering. Here, we take you on an exploration into areas that you wouldn’t likely venture into…
Desert Highlights takes the lead in offering original canyoneering guide services in Moab. Our full-day canyoneering adventure is based on a route designed by the founder of Desert Highlights in the late 1990s as a challenging route for guided canyoneering. Here, we take you on an exploration into areas that you wouldn’t likely venture into independently. Through the utilization of ropes, specialized equipment, and an adept guide coupled with an adventurous spirit, we are able to traverse into inaccessible zones. The Moab desert serves as our habitat, and we hold a strong passion for introducing others to this fantastic environment. On your guided journey, our services include not only a safe descent of a stunning, water-sculpted canyon, but also imparting knowledge about the local wildlife, the geology, and the fascinating history of the area we are fortunate to consider our home turf.
Location
Desert Highlights
South 100 East
From Main Street, turn East on Center St. and then take a right at 100 East. You'll see our shop on your right!
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(28 Ratings)
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Michellegm9936lm
Feb 22, 2024
Best thing in Moab! - By far the best thing I’ve done in Moab so far. My husband and I have come here for years and have done almost everything. We tried to do something different and we chose to do the zig zag tour. The tour was amazing, the views, photos we received and everything we saw. Will definitely be coming back yearly! Thank you, Herb for such a great time.
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Shaqcav23
Nov 1, 2023
Amazing Experience, Highly Recommend - Our experience with Desert Highlights was fantastic beginning to end.
We were a group of four looking for an adventurous trip doing canyoneering (our first times). It started with talking to Melissa on the phone who helped answer questions and got a feel for what we were looking for. She followed up our call via email with a ton of information and helped us pick the perfect excursion. Recommend talking to them to pick the right one for your group, they are super helpful.
The day of the adventure was super convenient. We had a private group since it was four of us and we met our tour guide, Jake. We rode in a private vehicle to the starting point where we did a super intense hike with stunning views, scrambling, and even some rock climbing maneuvers (it was so cool and what we asked for!). Jake was the best. He was cool to talk to, very knowledgeable, and supportive and helped us feel totally safe throughout the entire trip. He even took amazing pictures and gave ski recommendations for Utah for our next visit!
Cannot recommend Desert Highlights enough! Will absolutely book with them again. Thank you DH!
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Lisacc8061mc
Jul 25, 2023
AMAZING adventures with Desert Highlights! - Just an AMAZING EXPERIENCE!! I booked the Pool Arch Canyon canyoneering experience for me and my 12 year-old goddaughter based solely on the reviews I had voraciously read and the fact that they are a small shop that provide private experiences… and every single part was beyond compare. From my initial conversation with Melissa on the phone who spent so much time with me to determine what I was looking for and really understand our experience levels (she actually suggested this longer adventure from the one I had originally called for, and I am ecstatic that she did), to the perfect communications, to meeting the amazing KAI, our guide extraordinaire, our time could not have been any better. Kai is amazing, fun, and it felt like a super fun day out with friends rather than just a guided trip. Kai knows her stuff, and we felt safe every step of the way with her. She was outstanding with my goddaughter, who is super athletic and loves this stuff, but of course had some nerves. She talked her through every part, and my goddaughter voted our time with Kai as the best part of our entire vacation!! I can’t recommend it any more highly, what a great experience. And the Pool Arch Canyon tour was pretty amazing, with incredible rappels, super fun rock scrambling and some very welcome pool wading in the heat. Thank you Kai!!
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Samuelmy2738mi
May 21, 2023
Awesome Experience - My group and I had a great time with a great guide. The hike was a ton of fun, with tons of scenery and little technical areas to keep it interesting. The rappelling was then the Icing on the cake. Can’t wait to go again!
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Meganp579
Mar 20, 2023
Fell in love with Zig Zag Canyon! - Our family of 5 did the Zig Zag Canyoneering tour with Jake as our guide. Every little thing about it was amazing! We loved the canyoneering and ended the day with a bucket list 220 foot rappel that even our 9 year old did. It was the highlight of our week and memories we will never forget. Jake was an awesome guide and Melissa was great working with us to help us find the perfect tour for our adventurous family and we couldn't be happier with what we ultimately chose. Highly highly recommend Desert Highlights.
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Jkoz1006
Oct 10, 2022
3 incredible trips with Desert Highlights! - We booked 3 trips with them and had an amazing time! Highly recommend calling, Melissa was incredibly helpful with choosing the right trips for us and answering all of our questions.
Herb took us on our first multi pitch climb and was very patient with us, helping us learn new knots and teaching us the basics along the way. Kia took us climbing and rappelling, and Kiera took us into one of the Irish canyons. All the guides were so much fun and put up with our ridiculous picture taking. We felt really safe on every trip; Herb, Kia and Kiera were all very knowledgeable and answered all of our questions, plus gave us suggestions for other climbing areas and hikes.
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Kadensaunt
May 25, 2022
Amazing day of canyoneering! - Desert highlights is amazing!!! This is my second time canyoneering with them (10 years apart). Melissa was very friendly and accommodating and always called me right back if she was busy and couldn’t answer the phone. We did the Irish canyons with Kiera and I can’t say enough amazing things about her!! She was the best guide ever. It was 2 of us girls and Kiera and we had a blast!! She always made sure we were ok with her pace and stopped if we needed a rest and we felt very comfortable with her skills which made us comfortable doing all the rappels. She was very friendly and we all talked the entire time. It was the best day ever.
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Happycamper0818
May 9, 2022
A great adventure! - We did the Zig Zag canyoneering tour today with Kiera and it was beyond amazing. She made what felt like impossible feats completely possible for us. This was our second tour with Desert Highlights and we highly recommend them! The tour guides are friendly, knowledgeable, and patient. And it's such a treat to not be stuck in a large group - it's just me, my husband, and our guide. Thank you Kiera and Desert Highlights for another memorable adventure!
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Corby
Apr 22, 2022
Great Adventure in Moab!! - This was an exhilarating experience for our family!! Jake was our guide and he was absolutely amazing - he explained everything and made it easy to understand, made sure we were safe every step of the way, took some fantastic photos for us, and gave us lots of great memories. You don’t need rappelling experience to have a great time. We will definitely be back for another adventure!!!
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86done
Feb 24, 2022
Great Trip in a Private Canyon - We had a private tour over Presidents day weekend ('22) to a canyon outside of the major parks. Our guide (the owner) was awesome and very knowledgeable. We did three repels and about 3 miles of hiking up and back down during the trip. The trip couldn't have been better for our family. We were the only ones in the this area since it was a spot that's not used by other local guides. It was challenging enough for those in our group that wanted to be pushed, but still good for those that are a little nervous on steep rock sections. The repels, 70', 120', and 150' were amazing and provided great spots for views and eating lunch during the trip. Our trip also took us past places in the rock where our guide was able to point out fossils of past sea life and petrified trees embedded in the rocks. In short, we liked it enough that we'll probably do it again (different canyon) next time we're in town. Thanks for the memories!
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