Thursday, February 23, 2012

March Tours are Launched in Moab



These companies have replied with an overview of March tours.

In March, In Moab you can take a mountain bike tour, leisure tour, photography tour, get instruction on climbing and canyoneering, go rafting, float in a hot air balloon, jump from an airplane with a tandem skydive, take a hummer 4x4 ride, get a National Park driving tour, catch Westwater Canyon rafting (world class whitewater!) and check out the Spring Break Package with rafting, canyoneering, horse back riding, four wheeling, lodging, and mountain biking.

Welcome to Moab! Enjoy Spring!

Rim Mountain Bike Tours has full and half day tours, as well as, multi-day bike and camp trips on the March calendar. Get on the White Rim 4-day trip: March 19-22 or March 25-28 a support vehicle, meals, camping. White Rim 3-day trip March 22-24. Over in the Maze District of Canyonlands pedal away March 27 -31.

Tex's Riverways resumes shuttle services for the Green and Colorado Rivers, complete with canoe and river gear rentals for do-it-yourself flat water river trips.

OK Tours is driving a Western Movie Tour and a Moab Historic Tour this March.

Moab Photo Tours operates all year round; serves amateurs and professional photographers.

Outlaw Jeep Tours is geared up and running for the season. Rent a jeep, enjoy a guided jeep tour, or drive your own jeep or rental with Outlaw Jeep Tours as a trail guide for a 'follow us' scenic trail or even a hard core rock crawling trail.

Red River Adventures starts up March 17th with climbing, canyoneering and rafting.

Canyonlands Ballooning will be defying gravity with Hot Air Balloon launches March 1 through mid-November 2012.

Moab Adventure Center shall provide hummer, hiking, rafting and National Park tours after mid-March.

Moab Power Sports is servicing all motorcycles, UTVs and ATVs starting March. Guided ATV and UTV tours and rentals are available too.

Moab Tour Company has Jeep, ATV & UTV rentals, as well as, tours. Book a guided Hummer, ATV Razor tour in Moab's sporty outback with Moab Tour Company.

Skydive Moab has a March Special: $200 to leap from 10,000 feet. Save $25. Jumps start March 1st!

Skydive Canyonlands has a March Special: Purchase one tandem sky dive and get one free video of your jump.

Sheri Griffith River Expeditions has a “Spring Break Adventure Package” which includes lodging and activities including a hummer tour, mountain bike tour, 1 day rafting trip, a horseback tour and a canyoneering tour for $999 + tax. Dates for this trip are March 13th, 22nd and 25th. SGRE is also offering a 1 Day Westwater Canyon rafting trips on March 15th, 24th and 27th. The price of this trip is $170 + tax (fees).

Horseback Riding in Moab from the Hauer Ranch has been going on all winter and rides continue in March.

Moab Desert Adventures is geared up for hiking and repelling in Hidden Splendor, Cameltoe Canyon, Morning Glory and The Mystery Tour routes.

Dual Sport Utah begins KTM EXC 450 Street Legal motorcycle rentals, tours and shuttles on March 9th for the season.

Canyon Voyages Adventure Company will put together a raft trip on the Scenic Splash section of the Colorado River for a minimum of four passengers. Give them a call.

Adventure Park Moab opens the first week of March for team building activities and personal challenge on the high ropes course.


Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Local Golf Tournaments are Announced for the Moab Golf Course in 2012

Local Golf Tournaments will take place at the Moab Golf Course in 2012 on the following dates:

2012
March 3-4
Icebreaker
men/women
May 5-6
Canyonlands Amateur
men
May 19-20
Desert Duster 2 Lady Bestball
women
June 2-3
Canyonlands Couples
mixed
June 9-10
Arch & Horsehead
2-man mixed
July 14-15
3 Person Scramble
mixed
August 4-5
3-n-1 Mixed
mixed
September 8-9
Steak & Sudsfest Mixed Bestball mixed
September 21-23
Red Rocks Amateur men
October 6-7
Moab Senior Amateur
men/women
November 3-4
Elks Charity Scramble
men/women mixed

Check out the map of the greens.

To sign up contact the Moab Golf Course directly
moabgolf@citlink.net
2705 East Bench Road Moab, UT 84532-3540
(435) 259-6488

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Moab Winter Mild as February 2012 Approaches



February 2 2012
Volunteer meeting will be held at the City Center Conference Room (lower level), 217 East Center Street on Thursday evening from 6:30pm to 7:30pm for the February 25 2012 MRAC (Moab Recreation and Aquatic Center) triathlon. Stay tuned for official Event name.

February 3-5 2012
American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education brings the Level 1 Avalanche Course to Moab. Sign up with 435-636-3335. Or come to ski and snowboard in Moab's La Sal Mountains this February. Get a Moab Snow Report.

February 3 & 4 PLUS February 10 & 11 2012
Four date commitment for CERT Training (Community Emergency Response Team) held at Moab's Fire Department. $15. Feb3 @ 6pm-10pm/ Feb4 @ 9am-6pm/ Feb10 @ 6pm-10pm/ Feb11 @ 9am-6pm.

February 3 2012
Winter Concert at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center featuring Scott Ibex. 7 PM $15 Acoustic

February 3 2012
DJ Kid Steve O plays requests at Frankie D's at 9:00 pm.

February 4 2012
Annual Robert Burns Concert at the Grand Center featuring Christopher Layer, Kate MacLeod and the Moab Community Dance Band. 6 PM Scottish Celebration

February 4 2012
Mid Life Crisis plays classic rock at Frankie D's 9:00 pm.

February 5th and February 12th 2012
Remaining brunches held at the Youth Garden Project offered by Wabi Sabi's Hands Up Program. 10 AM - 1 PM.

February 7 2012
Canyonlands Rodeo PRCA Planning Meeting at the Old Spanish Trail Arena.

February 7 2012
Live Music at Eddie McStiff's starts at 6:30 pm. New Twah

February 10 2012
DJ Kid Steve O plays requests at Frankie D's at 9:00 pm.

February 11 2012
Concert at Star Hall 7:30 PM Moab's own Eric Jones performs with Matt Flinner Trio.

February 11 2012
Live Music at Eddie McStiff's starts at 6:30 pm. Erin Jane & the Satin Jammies

February 11 2012
Durango Band Jack 10 High plays at Frankie D's 8:30 pm.

February 17 2012
Live Music at Eddie McStiffs starts at 6:30 pm. Bedrock Rose & Friends

February 17 2012
DJ Kid Steve O plays requests at Frankie D's at 9:00 pm.

February 17-19 2012
Soccer Tournaments with the City of Moab Recreation winter league take place at the Old Spanish Trail Arena.

February 18 2012
Moab's Red Hot 33K and 55K are sold out. You can still volunteer for aid stations. Plan to sign up next year. This year the 33k is now a part of La Sportiva Mountain Cup and the 55k is worth 1 point for the North Face Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc.

February 18 & 19 2012
Moab Flute Festival takes place at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center starting Saturday at noon through Sunday at 9 PM. Concerts, Workshops and benefit for the Grand County High School Native American Club and Music Program.

February 21 2012
Live Music at Eddie McStiff's at 6:30 pm. Noah Peterson

February 22 2012
Heather Rubert, John Wayne Historian, presents John Ford at Moab's Grand Center 6:00 pm.

February 22 - 24 2012
The Animal Control Officers and Shelter Workers of Utah meet in Moab. Consider Moab for a winter retreat or conference too. More help is yours for planning a Moab Meeting with Moab Travel Council's department for Meetings and Events.

February 23 2012
Film sponsored by the Moab Library "How to Die in Oregon" @ Star Hall 7 pm.

February 24 2012
DJ Kid Steve O plays requests at Frankie D's at 9:00 pm.

February 25 2012
Sprint Triahtlon in Moab. More details soon from the Moab Recreation and Aquatics Center.

February 25 2012
Trashion Show! at Frankie D's 8PM. Costume party fundraiser for Canyonlands Community Recycling. Prizes. Cover Charger $10 in costume, $15 if not in costume.

And watch for the DOCNA - Dog Agility at the Old Spanish Trail Arena going into March (3rd and 4th 2012). Be a spectator (but leave your own precious pets at home, unless they are trained to compete.)

Come any day in February to go winter bike riding in Moab. Take a look at Moab in February with a 2 year old toddler as blogged by a past February Moab visitor. And how about Geocaching? Yep. Bring your GPS for some hide and seek. Even when Moab gets snow, it isn't all that bad...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Motorcoach Group Tours Swinging into Moab Utah for 2012


2014 Motorcoach Tours

Departing from various cities across the United States, the following multiple day tours include parks in the Moab Utah area, such as, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and/or Dead Horse Point State Park. Theses group tours cover multiple day journeys either point-to-point or loops from a single city.


Upcoming Tour Dates:
USA Tours  800 492-2601
  • 11 Days
  • May 4th – May 14th, 2014
  • Sept 17th – Sept 27th, 2014
  • Round trip from Missouri
  • Colorado and Utah National Park Tour 
Coffee Break Tours 800-874-3166
  • 13 Days
  • May 3 – 15 2014
  • Round trip from Camden OK
  • Scenic 2014 
Mayflower Tours 800-323-7604
  • 13 days
  • May 17 2014
  • Round trip from Iowa
  • National Parks of the Southwest
  • 17 Days
  • June 11 – 28, 2014
  • St LouisVirginia
  • Canyonlands and National Parks
Atlas Travel  800-942-3301
  • Trafalgar Tours
  • May 26 – June 1, 2014
  • June 23 – June 29, 2014
  • July 28 to August 3, 2014
  • August 18 to August 24, 2014
  • September 8 to September 14, 2014
  • September 22 to September 28, 2014
  • Denver to Las Vegas
  • Best of Canyonlands
King George Travel        800-275-1599
  • 11 Days
  • May – June 2014
  • Round Trip Las Vegas
  • Enchanting Canyonlands
YMT Vacations 888-979-4310
  • 14 Days
  • Round trip Las Vegas
  • Golden West Tour
Geo Tours 877-622-9109
  • 14 Days
  •  May – October Departures
  •  Round Trip Las Vegas
  • Scenic Parks Explorer
Tauck Tours  800-788-7885
  • 9 Days
  • May – October 2014 departures
  • Grand Junction to Las Vegas
  • Western USA 
Holiday Vacations 800-826-2266
  • 10 Days
  • September 21 – 30 -2014
  • Vacation hosted by Brian Wagner, Meteorologist
  • 11 Days
  • September 28- October 8 2014
  • Yellowstone & Canyonalnds


Here are eight (2012) known group tours that include a stop in Moab Utah for our inspirational Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. These tours are contained itineraries on a comfortable motorcoach. Leave the driving to someone else and make the most of this social atmosphere. Tour Guides oversee the logistics are carried out on these cross-country itineraries into featured national treasures of the west.

Lassen Tours departs Los Angeles every Saturday from April 7 2012- October 20, 2012 for a 7 day loop to include Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, Arches National Park, and Monument Valley.

Green Tortoise Adventure Travel departs San Francisco for 16 days; has five departure dates scheduled for 2012 in the summer months. It is the ultimate backpacking and camping holiday looping into Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Arches National Parks. The closing party in Las Vegas before returning participants to either Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Take Tours by GotoBus departs Denver every Wednesday April 2,8 2012 – October 6, 2012 for 6 days to include Crazy Horse, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Jackson Hole, Arches National Park, Glenwood Springs and Salt Lake City.

Tours 4 Fun departs Los Angeles for a May 5 – 9, 2012 loop to include Arches National Park, Crazy Horse, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas.

Travel Dream West departs for 21 day departures with July 28 2012, September 9, 2012 or October 7, 2012. The trip starts in Las Vegas and ends in San Francisco. The itinerary includes Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches & Canyonlands, Mesa Verde, Durango, Monument Valley, Lake Powell, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and Yosemite.

Mayflower Tours has two 13 day trip departures on May 19 2012 and September 15 2012 for the National Parks of the Southwest – Motorcoach tour. Starts in Iowa to Fort Hays Colorado and a Colorado River raft trip. Includes Colorado National Monument, Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon, Moqui cave and Zion, Grand Canyon North Rim, through Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument, Amarillo Texas to Oklahoma City and the museum of Western Expansion in St Louis.

Grand American Adventures has five departures in 2012 for a 16 day motorcoach tour which begins in San Francisco to conclude in Las Vegas. The itinerary includes Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Idaho, Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, Arches & Canyonlands, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, and Zion.

Tauck offers 10 days with the Spirit of the Desert: The National Parks of the Southwest. It begins in Grand Junction Colorado, includes Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon north Rim and includes two scenic flights.

Singles Travel Company uses the semi-famous Grand Circle for a Western National Parks itinerary to include Vegas, Bryce, Zion, Capitol Reef, Goblin Valley, Arches National Park, Monument Valley Lake Powell, Grand Canyon North Rim and Escalante during May 13-20, 2012.

Dreamlander Tours
provides a shorter round-trip Salt Lake City to Moab adventure, to include rafting, Bar M Chuckwagon and Arches National Park. Dates are July 19-23 and July 26-30 2012.

And if you should decide to carry out a tour of the west’s National Parks on your own, invest in a park pass. You can purchase it at the entrance of your first park. The pass is good for a year from the date of purchase. Also, these dates were shared with us for Free Fee days for 2012.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Moab's 2012 Nature and Landscape Photography Workshops

Here is the current list of photography workshops known to be held in Moab in 2012.

Exposure36 snuck in for National Parks Birthday August 25, 1916 and a blogger piped a beautifully lit Canyonlands photograph. Something a little extra. For custom Photography Tours & Workshops with four people per guide, including 4WD transportation, appropriate beverages or snacks for the length of the tour, Moab Photo Tours can accommodate many additional dates for instruction from beginner to amateur level through professionals.

From April through November, the 2012 Artist in the Park is a photographer! Logan Hansen will have specified dates, if visitors would like to meet him in the field. Look at the schedule to see when and where he will be: Arches, Canyonlands, Hovenweep or Bridges National Monument.


March 25-30 2012
Medium Format & Panoramic Photography
Peter Lorber

April 7-8 2012
Moab Utah Nature Photography
Jerome Shaw

April 19-22 2012
Dave Black

April 21 & 22 2012
Bret Edge

May 3-6 2012
Moab Photography Symposium
Guy Tal, Dan Ballard, Carolyn Guild, Jeff Foott, Tom Till, Bruce Hucko, Sheila Babbie, and Steve Traudt

May 4-6 2012
Illuminate Workshop
Efrain Cruz and Armando Martinez

May 6-13 2012
Moab Photo Tours with Tom Till
Tom Till

May 13 - 17 2012
Spring in Arches
Robert Rodriguez Jr.

May 13-18 2012
Red Rock Country
Jim Altengarten

May 16-20 2012
Scenic Light by Bob Evans
Bob Evans


May 18-22 2012
The Arches and Canyonlands National Parks Workshops
Alain and Natalie Briot


May 27 - June 1 2012
Arches & Canyonlands: Desert Spring
Tim Cooper

June 7-10 2012
North American Photo Tours Moab
Art Wolfe and Jay Goodrich

September 9-13 2012
Barefoot Contessa
Margo Pinkerton

September 18-21 2012
Nikonians Academy
Winston C. Hall

September 28 - October 1 2012
With Western Spirit Biking Shooting Action Photography
Scott Markewitz

October 1-5 2012
Arches Canyonlands National Park Photography Workshop
Salvatore Vasapolli

October 27-31 2012
4th Annual Full Moon Over Red Rock, Arches and Canyons
Don Smith Photography

November 4-10 2012
Moab Photo Tours with Tom Till
Tom Till

December 2-8 2012
Moab Photo Tours with Tom Till
Tom Till


Friday, December 2, 2011

Best of Utah Races and Sport Events May Well be in Moab for 2012

Looking ahead into 2012 for Moab Utah Races and Sport Events.
New on the Moab agenda will be a Roller Derby event, Mountain Bike Stage Race and Bull Riding competition. The Moab Trail Marathon has a new designation for 2012 too.

Bring your bicycles, running shoes, roller skates, horse and getting ready to move.

January 7 - 8 2012
Saturday & Sunday

January 21, 2012 NEW
Saturday
Roller Derby Event

Feb 18, 2012
Saturday
Moab's Red Hot 55K and 33K
55K trail run, 33K trail run

March Yeti Thaw
Stay tuned read about the 2011 event.
Mountain Bike Demo Rides

March 17, 2012
Saturday
Canyonlands Half Marathon

March 24-25, 2012
Saturday
24 Hours Utah…the Run

April 9, 2012
Monday
Moab Marathon

April 14, 2012
Saturday
Adventure XStream Series - Moab
Adventure Race

April 14, 2012
Saturday
Amasa 6.5M and 9.5M
9.5M trail run, 6.5M trail run

April 28 & 29, 2012
American Quarter Horse Association affiliate

May 12, 2012
Saturday
Road Cycling Event

May 12, 2012
Saturday
Red Rock Relay Moab
Team Foot Race

May 19, 2012
Saturday
Suffer & Send It

May 31 - June 3, 2012
Thursday - Sunday

June 8-9, 2012
Friday & Saturday
Rockwell Relay
Moab to St George Road Cycling

June 6-9, 2012
Wednesday - Saturday
4x4 Crawl for Christ

June 8-9, 2012
Friday & Saturday
TriUtah Moab Triathlon Festival
Triathlon Xterra

Jun 17-23, 2012
Sunday - Saturday
Desert R.A.T.S. Multi-Stage Race
6 days - 148M run
Foot Race

June 24 - 30 2012 NEW
Sunday - Saturday
San Juan Hut to Hut Stage Race 
Mountain Bikes

August 11, 2012 NEW
Saturday
Bull Riding

September 22 2012
Saturday
Moab Autumn 10K Run
Foot Race

September 29 - October 1, 2012 NEW
Saturday - Monday
Furious 3
Mountain Bike Stage Race

September 29 - 30 2012 NEW
Mountain Bike Downhill Race by YETI

October 3 - 7, 2012
Wednesday - Sunday
Mountain Bike Demo Rides

October 2012
Saturday - Sunday
Slickrock 100M, 50M, 50K
Foot Race

October 6-7, 2012 (tentative)
24 Hours of Moab
Mountain Bike Race

October 25-28, 2012
Thursday - Sunday
Mountain Bike Function

October 25-27, 2012
Horseback

October 21, 2012
Sunday
Foot Race

November 3 2012 NEW DESIGNATION: Trail Marathon National Championship

November 7-1, 2012
For ages 50+, medals given to top three contenders across 13 games.

November 17, 2012
Saturday
Turkey Trot
5K Foot Race

December 1, 2012
Saturday
Winter Sun 10K
Foot Race

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Moab is on Facebook


For immediate views of the most current local events, live music and activites become a friend of Moab on Facebook.


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