14 Days    Begins New York ends Los Angeles

Tour Highlights
• All American Picnic
• Niagara Falls
• Badlands
• Mount Rushmore
• Deadwood
• Yellowstone National Park
• Chicago City Tour
• Grand Tetons
• Salt Lake City Tour
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Visit Grand Canyon
• Los Angeles City Tour
• Visit Las Vegas

Day 01 | Sat | New York – Philadelphia – Washington, D.C.
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Motorcoach tour commences. Joining passengers meet in the lobby
at 07:30 hours for a 08:00 hours departure.
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Spend the morning exploring the historic district of Philadelphia,
City of Brotherly Love. Walk where America’s founding fathers
found the inspiration to build a new nation. Explore the National
Constitution Center, see the Liberty Bell, and stroll through
Independence National Historic Park and Mall. Then continue
to Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital.
Hotel: Comfort Inn Tysons Corner

Day 02 | Sun | Washington, D.C.
Enjoy a city tour with such highlights as the U.S. Capitol Building,
Supreme Court, Library of Congress, the FBI Building, Washington
Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the White House and Arlington
National Cemetery, site of the John F. Kennedy Memorial. Spend
the remainder of the day exploring some of the many museums
comprising the Smithsonian Institute. This evening, perhaps take
an optional Washington by Night tour to see another side of this
bustling city.

Day 03 | Mon | Washington, D.C. – Gettysburg –
Niagara Falls, Canada
Today, visit Gettysburg National Military Park, site of one of the
most decisive battles during the American Civil War, and the place
where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous address in 1863. We
then travel through central Pennsylvania and upstate New York to
Buffalo on our way to the “smoke that thunders,” Niagara Falls.
Hotel: Renaissance Fallsview

Day 04 | Tue | Niagara Falls – Detroit
Spend the morning sightseeing at Niagara Falls. Stroll along Table
Rock and view the thundering waters of Horseshoe Falls. Travel
on to Detroit, known as motor city USA. Detroit is home to the
country’s automobile manufacturing centers. Evening at leisure.
Hotel: Best Western Greenfield Inn

Day 05 | Wed | Detroit – Chicago
Travel along Lake Michigan, leaving Detroit. Continue on to
Chicago, where you will enjoy a short tour of the city’s highlights
including Lake Shore Drive, the Magnificent Mile and Navy Pier.
The Windy City’s stunning high rise architecture and one of the
world’s tallest buildings, the Sears Tower (admission not included),
provide a dramatic backdrop for this cultural and financial center.
Hotel: Quality Inn & Suites

Day 06 | Thu | Chicago – Sioux City
Travel through Midwest farm country abundant in corn fields,
wheat fields and dairy farms. Then we cross the mighty Mississippi
River and travel into the state of Iowa to arrive just as Lewis &
Clark did 200 years ago on the banks of the Missouri River when
we overnight in Sioux City.
Hotel: Clarion Hotel

Day 07 | Fri | Sioux City – Badlands National Park –
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial –
Deadwood / Rapid City
Travel westward through the grasslands of South Dakota and
onwards to Badlands National Park, once home to the buffalo
and antelope, and filled with strange shaped and colorful rock
formations. Then we continue on to the Black Hills, sacred to
the Plains Indians and home to Mount Rushmore – an enormous
monument to four of the great presidents of America – Washington,
Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Spend an evening at leisure.
Hotel: Mineral Palace Hotel

Day 08 | Sat | Deadwood/Rapid City –
Bighorn Mountains – Cody
Enter the “Equality State,” Wyoming, which has twelve mountain
ranges intermixed with deserts and rolling grasslands, and continue
to Cody for the night. (If overnight in Cody is not possible due to
weather or adverse road conditions in Yellowstone, overnight will
be in Billings/Livingston, Montana.)
Hotel: Buffalo Bills Village Holiday Inn

Day 09 | Sun | Cody – Yellowstone National Park
Drive past the mountains in Wyoming to Yellowstone – America’s
first National Park – and enjoy a sightseeing tour of this immense
geothermal wonderland, including geysers, waterfalls, wildlife and
canyons. Highlights will include Yellowstone Lake, Old Faithful,
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Canyon’s majestic falls, and
the beautiful Hayden Valley.
Hotel: Days Inn Yellowstone

Day 10 | Mon | Yellowstone National Park –
Grand Teton National Park – Salt Lake City
Travel through Grand Teton National Park (weather permitting)
and see awesome mountain peaks towering over 13,000 ft. (4,000
meters). Later, arrive in the Mormon State of Utah and take a short
city tour of its capital, Salt Lake City. The followers of Brigham
Young built one of the best-planned cities in the country. See the
State Capitol building and visit famed Temple Square and the
Tabernacle before arriving at the hotel for the evening.
Hotel: Best Western Garden Inn

Day 11 | Tue | Salt Lake City – Bryce Canyon National Park
Continue today to spectacular Bryce Canyon, where a tour through
a multi-colored world of sandstone spires and pinnacles will dazzle
the eye. Nature’s artistry has created rocks in thousands of shapes,
sizes and colors, beautiful in their setting against the unusually deep
blue sky. Enjoy the evening at leisure.
Hotel: Bryce View Lodge

Day 12 | Wed | Bryce– Lake Powell–Grand Canyon–Flagstaff
Depart Bryce Canyon this morning and journey to stunning Lake
Powell, where crystal blue water laps against towering red-rock
canyon walls. Lake Powell is the second-largest manmade lake in
America, and one in a series of lakes formed by the damming of
the Colorado River. Then visit colossal Grand Canyon National
Park, one of the seven great natural wonders of the world. Stop
at the Desert View Tower on the South Rim to fully experience
this mile-deep canyon - plunging gorges, rising spires, extinct
volcanoes and below the rim, the winding Colorado River.
Overnight in Flagstaff.
Hotel: Ramada Limited

Day 13 | Thu | Flagstaff – Seligman/Route 66 – Las Vegas
Continue to Las Vegas, the dazzling “Entertainment Capital of
the World,” where round-the-clock shopping, nightly shows, and
of course gambling are available. Remainder of the day is at leisure
for you to enjoy the many attractions that Las Vegas has to offer.
In addition to world-class shopping, bustling casinos and Broadway caliber shows, you might simply stroll the famous Strip, taking in
its amazing sights and sounds, or lie by the pool at your hotel,
soaking up the sun. Make sure to bring your appetite, as Las Vegas
boasts some of the country’s top restaurants.
Hotel: Circus Circus

Day 14 | Fri | Las Vegas – Mojave Desert – Los Angeles
Travel to Los Angeles via the Mojave Desert, home of the world’s
tallest thermometer, at 134 feet (41 meters) high. Strands of unique Joshua trees dot the mountainous landscape. Upon arrival in Los Angeles you will enjoy a tour through the City of Angels including Hollywood, Sunset Strip and parts of Beverly Hills, after which your tour concludes.