Pair your passion for off-road adventure with your love of heart-pumping hikes during a guided day tour in Canyonlands National Park. A skilled driver escorts you along the White Rim Road, a 100-mile (161-km) expanse of arid backcountry, where rewarding treks and extraordinary vistas await.

Join your guide in Moab and head southwest into Canyonlands National Park. Exchange the park's paved thoroughfares for the dusty White Rim Road. Your seasoned driver revs the engine and you fly through scenery dotted with sagebrush and Utah juniper in every direction.

The Land Cruiser makes quick work of the park, delivering you to your first ascent in no time. On a trek through a narrow slot canyon, learn about the White Rim sandstone that dominates the park's landscape. Deposited during a period of marine transgression—a geologic event that causes sea levels to rise—the White Rim rock strata contain centuries of intelligence about the earth.

Emerge from the slot canyon to orient yourself in the light of day, and then climb back inside the rugged vehicle and shuttle to additional sites. On another invigorating climb, marvel at the vermilion escarpments at Dead Horse Point. Then, settle on a comfortable lunch destination with views of the thundering Colorado River.