Natural Habitat Adventures Launches New “Safari America” Series
Bringing Together Catered Camping with Distinctive Lodge Stays
In America’s Iconic National Parks
BOULDER, CO, March 22, 2016 — The nature travel professionals at Natural Habitat Adventures have come up with a fresh way to explore America’s national parks and
reserves. By choosing paths less traveled and incorporating deluxe
catered camping, guests experience in solitude the wonder of the
country’s most magnificent landscapes without compromising comfort.
Natural Habitat’s ( http://www.nathab.com/)
newest trip seeks to replicate a traditional African safari experience
with large canvas tents, fine dining and a telescope for stargazing. The
first offering in the Safari America series, Safari America: Under the Desert Sky,
is a 9-day, 8-night adventure that combines moderate hiking with
catered camping and classic lodge stays at four premier parks: Grand
Canyon (the quieter North Rim that hosts just 10 percent of all visitors
to the park), Bryce, Zion and rarely visited Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument.
Departures
begin and end in St. George, UT. 2016 dates are Aug.7-15 and Aug. 25-
Sept. 2. The per-person double rate is $3,995; single supplement $1,095.
Guests spend four nights in walk-in canvas tents with real beds (two
twins or a queen) and down comforters, a private toilet for each tent,
and hot showers. Home-cooked meals are served at a table set with linens
and porcelain dinnerware, complemented with fine wines. Three nights
are spent in classic western lodges.
Evoking the concept of a mobile African safari, camps are secluded on
private lands adjacent to national parks. An open-sided lounge tent
provides a gathering space, with comfortable chairs for relaxing. A
high-powered telescope is situated for shared use after dark. Camps are
set in areas known for near-perfect conditions for stargazing, with low
humidity, isolation from ambient light and the darkest skies in the
West. While accommodations are not luxurious, they offer full-service,
classic tented camping at its finest.
Interspersed
during the week between safari camp stays are three nights at exclusive
western lodges. Guests enjoy two nights in rustic luxury at Zion
Mountain Ranch, a private spread with its own bison herd, perched atop a
plateau under wide-open skies. From individual cabins with private
decks, guests watch buffalo and wild deer graze in meadows before
retreating inside to the warmth of a wood-burning fireplace. The ranch
restaurant prepares acclaimed farm-to-table meals featuring seasonal
dishes sourced from local growers. Guests also spend a night at Bryce
Canyon Lodge, the venerable 1920s hostelry recently restored to its
original splendor and that remains the only lodging on the rim inside
Bryce Canyon National Park.
Two naturalist Expedition Leaders share with a maximum of 14 guests per
departure the highlights and hidden corners of the Colorado Plateau’s
dramatic topography, a trip that includes the little-visited Grand
Staircase-Escalante, a geological wonderland of broad mesas, narrow slot
canyons, stacked sandstone and arid washes. While tenting in Escalante
and on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, guests may gaze at the heavens
with a high-powered telescope under a canopy of stars. While traveling
throughout this region, each guest has a window seat in one of two
comfort-designed vans.
The
canyon country of the American West has long held a storied place in
the annals of travel adventure. From John Wesley Powell’s Colorado River
explorations to Mary Colter, who influenced Southwest architecture, to
Teddy Roosevelt, who fell in love with the Wild West, intrepid pioneers
and everyday explorers alike have pursued the allure of these rustic
landscapes. This trip’s focus in tandem with Nat Hab partner World Wildlife Fund is a classic journey into America’s high deserts, forests and
canyonlands, shunning crowds by staying in secluded areas where quiet
and solitude reign, just as they did for the early explorers.
For details, please see
http://www.nathab.com/us-national-parks-tours/southwest-national-parks-camping-tour/.
For information on all of Nat Hab’s trips, descriptive itineraries, date
availability and reservations call 800.543.8917 or visit http://www.nathab.com/. Click HERE to order a copy of the 2016 catalog.
About Natural Habitat Adventures
Natural Habitat Adventures is a world leader in responsible adventure
travel and nature-based ecotourism. Since its founding in 1985, the
company has offered eco-conscious expeditions and wildlife-focused
small-group tours to the planet’s most remarkable nature destinations.
Inspired and created from years of scouring the planet for the singular
and extraordinary, Nat Hab’s itineraries are artfully crafted
experiences that are far from “typical.” Trips are guided by
professional naturalist Expedition Leaders,
and Nat Hab enjoys a longstanding reputation for hiring some of the
world’s best guides. Conservation is at the forefront of everything NHA
does, and its philosophy is simple: tourism must work with and benefit
local communities, which will in turn find value in protecting natural
resources and wildlife. NHA is proud to be the travel partner of World Wildlife Fund,
sharing a mutual commitment to travel as a means of helping to protect
the world’s wondrous natural places. Nat Hab has donated more than $2
million to WWF and will continue to donate 1% of gross sales plus
$100,000 annual through 2018 in support of WWF’s mission.
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