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US National Park Experiences
Being at one with nature is every city dweller’s dream. If you’re planning a holiday in America with the family, schedule some time in the great outdoors with some of America’s best national parks.
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Grand Canyon
rocky Mountain National Park, ColorADo
For generations, the Rocky Mountain National Park has been drawing nature lovers from all over the world looking to spot wild animals in the wilderness. This is one of America’s most beautiful parks, located between Roosevelt, Arapaho National Forest and Colorado State Forest.
Accessible year round, there’s plenty to do in the Rocky Mountain National Park, including fishing, rafting, horse riding and boating. Couples can take a tranquil mountain ride into Roosevelt National Forest, while families can enjoy an easy walk around Bear Lake, a lake high in the mountains with stellar peak views, or the Lulu City walk, which follows a gentle path to the site of an old 1880s gold mining camp.
If a cowboy sing-along is more your thing, join Cowfolk Brad and Kathy Fitch for some acoustic folk, family and western music in Estes Park all summer until mid- August – guaranteed to get toes tapping in the great outdoors.
With RCI all your stay options are covered from Vail and Avon, Copper Mountain and Frisco, to Winter Park and Granby. Your only big headache is to decide where to start first! Go on and enjoy the best of both worlds, surround yourself with alpine beauty on day hikes, then return to a town full of amenities.
Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
High country fishing
Balloon sunrise over red rocks of Sedona Arizona
Monument Valley
waits to take your breath away. Sedona is known around the globe
as a spiritual mecca and is believed
to have a unique energy, namely because the neuro-stimulating red- orange colour of the rock is thought to enhance the ability to think creatively and solve problems. Therapy on the Rocks, considered one of Sedona’s most authentic healing experiences, is run
by wellness guru John F. Barnes. His specialty is myofascial release, a type of massage that manipulates connective tissue to help treat everything from chronic back pain to migraines.
Mountain trekking
Sedona, ArizoNA
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to as “Red Rock Country”. Sedona in Arizona is surrounded by towering red- rock monoliths that catch the afternoon light in a colourful display that keeps tourists clicking their cameras until sunset. Coffeepot, Cathedral and Thunder Mountain lead the way to the north end of the city where the jaw- dropping chasm of Oak Creek Canyon
ome of the most spectacular scenery in the world can be found in what’s often referred
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