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Best Way to Experience Desert - Driving!
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  • jumpingnorman
  • By jumpingnorman on November 24, 2008
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  • Myself driving in the Arizona desert, family trip! - Arizona
    Myself driving in the Arizona
    desert, family trip!
    by jumpingnorman, 4 more photos
    The Arizona desert is huge, and there's really no reliable public transportation that will bring you around the whole area. To access those native Indian dwellings and amazing desert landscapes, you need to have your wheels --- bring or rent a car, RV or even rent a Harley Bike (some companies offer Harley rentals). RV's are convenient in that a lot of cities and state parks are RV friendly. The roads in Arizona are wide and well-maintained, and some of the rest areas have the best scenic views of the desert. Gas stations are also plentiful, and sometimes gas is even cheaper in Flagstaff that the bigger Phoenix metropolitan area! So, if you are up to extensively exploring this state and its neighbors, get some gas money and maybe a GPS device might help too!

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    Grand Canyon Railway
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  • awayhome
  • Updated By awayhome on March 28, 2004
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  • Grand Canyon Train. - Arizona
    Grand Canyon Train.
    by awayhome
    Service the Grand Canyon since 1901.
    The Grand Canyon Railway train departs Williams, Arizona every morning at 10 am. It's a relaxing 2 hour 15 minute train ride to the Grand Canyon. You'll see how beautiful of the canyon that you may see in your car.

    Price of the train.
    Coach Class; Adults $58.00, Child $25.00
    Club Class; Adults $79.00, Child $46.00
    First Class Adult $116.00, Child $83.00
    Deluxe Observation Class ; Adults $137.00, Child $104.00
    Luxury Parlor Class : Adults $147.00, Child $114.00

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  • Phone: 1-800-408-2052
  • Website: http://www.grand-canyon.com
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    wide open roads & Saguaros
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  • richiecdisc
  • Updated By richiecdisc on June 1, 2009
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  • open roads lined with Saguaros - Arizona
    open roads lined with Saguaros
    by richiecdisc
    As long as you don't get in rush hour traffic around the greater Phoenix area, driving around Arizona is a joy. Straight open roads unfold before you as you drive through scrub brush desert dotted with huge Saguaro cacti. You can't get any more “out west” than this. Distances are great but there always seems to be something to see en route.

    Our route south to north was from Organ Pipe National Monument to Saguaro National Park which took about four hours to cover the 150 mile trip. From nearby Tuscon to Montezuma's Castle it was another three hours and 200 miles. Tack on another half hour of a very scenic 25 miles to Sedona. From there, it's another 120 miles and two and a half hours to the Grand Canyon. We also took in Chiricahua National Monument in the far southeastern corner of the state that was two and a half hours and 120 miles. We hit Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly later in the trip, coming from Colorado and Utah but it would be about five hours to the furthest point. Don't let the distances or driving times scare you though. Getting there is part of the fun but take your time as speeding limits especially on reservation lands are strictly enforced. Besides, the scenery is priceless so soak it all in.

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    Rent a car!
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  • kazander
  • Updated By kazander on February 3, 2006
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  • car in Sedona - Arizona
    car in Sedona
    by kazander
    I think the only way to really see Arizona is to drive it. There is so much to see and it's nice to set your own pace doing it.
    When we have visited, we rented our cars at the Phoenix airport. This last time we rented from Budget, they had the best prices at the time. All of the rental agencies park their cars a little ways away from the airport. So although you can check in with them in the airport, you need to take a shuttle out to your car. The shuttle pick up stations are just outside of the building from the rental agencies. Most (if not all) companies provide you with road maps of the area.

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    There's nothing like sticking...
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  • By TrueBeliever on September 8, 2002
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  • There's nothing like sticking your head out of the window on a highway that runs seemingly forever in both directions. So many fantasies bearing overtones of isolation and freedom can streak through your head. Out on the highway in the early dawn, just as the sun breaks the night into soft blues and reds...it is an overwhelminig sense of freedom. You can't achieve a feeling like this in the city. It's the closest you can come to flying without actually lifting yourself off the ground. Go ahead, try it. It's even better in a convertable. If you like to live dangerously, do it while you're driving--if there's no other cars around...just make sure you keep one eye on the road okay???
    UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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    While driving around the boonies ......
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  • By kymbanm on May 6, 2005
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  • A lot of undeveloped beauty... - Arizona
    A lot of undeveloped beauty...
    by kymbanm
    When road tripping about the Southwest, keep in mind that there are large stretches of road without services for travelers.

    For this reason, I stick firmly to my 'rule'... the gas gauge never drops lower than 1/4 tank before I refuel. This provides me w/ a safety margin, as well as a better choice of fill up spots for price comparisons along the way.

    Just use common sense and try to buy yourself a bottle of water whenever you stop - out here you can never drink enough of it :)

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    From Las Vegas to Grand Canyon South Rim
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  • csordila
  • Updated By csordila on March 17, 2009
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  • Grand Canyon Airport - Arizona
    Grand Canyon Airport
    by csordila, 1 more photos
    We were picked up early in the morning at our hotel - Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas - and delivered to the Airport. Flight from Boulder Airport to the Grand Canyon.
    Tour began with a flight over Lake Mead and Hoover Dam before flying to the South Rim. (The Hoover Dam on Colorado River creates Lake Mead at the border of Nevada-Arizona.
    Length 379 m, height 221 m.)
    From Grand Canyon Airport motorcoach tour with more stops at South Rim. The Grand Canyon, one of the wonders of the world, has been created by Colorado River cutting through rock for two billion years.The canyon is 446 km long, from 6 to 24 kilometers wide and more than a mile deep.
    Late afternoon back to Las Vegas.
    Duration cca. 8 hours including more then 2 hours flight. Price was about $200,- pro Person. Everything was allright.

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    RAFT THE CANYON!
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  • mtncorg
  • Updated By mtncorg on October 11, 2005
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  • Arizona Transportation
    by mtncorg
    For doing the Grand Canyon, you can either try and obtain a permit for doing the river on your own - the permit waiting list is something like 10 years - or you can go with one of the guide companies (most of them have websights; search 'Grand Canyon river trips'?). I went with a company called Moki Mac and can recommend them. The different companies have different trips though most have a 2 week through trip or split the trip up into roughly weeklong trips - the catch here is you either have to hike out of the canyon at Phantom Ranch if you are doing the first part of the trip (Marble Canyon is the prettiest stretch in my mind), or you have to hike down if doing the second half of the trip (the biggest rapids are on this section with one, Granite Creek, only a short float down from Phantom Ranch).

    For more on rafting in the Grand Canyon, see my two travellogues in the Grand Canyon National Park section.

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    united airlines
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  • Scarlett1313
  • By Scarlett1313 on September 1, 2003
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  • jeremy and me in Sedona - Arizona
    jeremy and me in Sedona
    by Scarlett1313
    Arizona has everything you could ever imagine. Shopping is great, it was just like home for me...every store and more. Food was never ever a problem either, there was always a decent restaurant around or fast food as well, and the people in these places are much more respectable and nice than they are here in the NY area. Prices were the same as here. Some things were even more expensive, but I guess that was because of the tourist traps and hot spots, so they know they could get more money out of ya. There was always a rental car place around and busses of couse were always an option.. I never used the public transportation once, because we had a rental car.

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  • Website: www.enterprise.com
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    Our good old rented RV that ...
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  • dutch_anna
  • Updated By dutch_anna on February 2, 2003
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  • RV - Arizona
    RV
    by dutch_anna
    Our good old rented RV that brought us through 7 States without trouble.
    In 1998 we rented a "Cruise America" RV, the next year a "Moturis" RV.

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