All visitors who be a part of us on America’s Canyonlands and Tauck Bridges Crimson Rocks & Painted Canyons will get pleasure from a selection of flightseeing adventures over the awe-inspiring geologic wonderland that surrounds Lake Powell. Visitors on each excursions may also have the choice of selecting a flightseeing journey to Monument Valley for an extra price, as a substitute of the Tauck-included flight.
Tauck-included scenic flight to Rainbow Bridge.
Visitors who take the Tauck-included flightseeing tour will board a flight from Web page, Arizona, that soars over Lake Powell and the encompassing space. It’s highlighted by a hen’s-eye view of the well-known Rainbow Bridge. The flight aboard a small aircraft lasts roughly 30 to 40 minutes earlier than visitors land again on the airport.
President William Howard Taft declared Utah’s Rainbow Bridge a nationwide monument in 1910 as a web site of geological and cultural significance. A naturally sculpted sandstone arch standing 290 ft tall and 270 ft huge on the sting of Lake Powell, Rainbow Bridge is revered as a sacred place by the tribal individuals who stay within the area, inspiring origin tales, ceremonial rites and pilgrimages courting again 1000’s of years and nonetheless related right this moment. Its title is alleged to have originated from the Puebloan folks’s title for it, Nonnezoshe, which interprets to “rainbow turned to stone.” Because the locals will inform you, the true significance of Rainbow Bridge extends past the apparent, standing as a bridge between cultures.
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