★★★★★
“Our guide knew which pocket in the wall held water after rain. Standing inside a honeycomb of rock is something I still think about.”
MK
Margot KellerZürich · Honeycomb Walls
Walk throughthe rock.
Small-group expeditions to the arches, slot canyons and honeycomb walls of Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Six guests at most, permits handled, back before the heat.
Why the holes
Wind, salt and 190 million years turned sandstone into Swiss cheese.
Navajo and Aztec sandstone were once dunes. Water seeps in, salt crystals grow, grains pop loose, and a pit becomes a pocket, then a window, then an arch. We have spent fourteen seasons finding the best ones — and the quiet hour to see them.
- Guides who read rock
- Every lead guide holds a Wilderness First Responder card and a geology background.
- Permits sorted
- We enter the lotteries and file the paperwork. You pack water.
- Six guests, never more
- Small enough to walk the fins without queueing at the narrow bits.
- Leave no trace
- We stay on slickrock and wash, never on the living cryptobiotic crust.
2,000+natural arches catalogued inside Arches National Park alone
14seasons guiding the Colorado Plateau
3,800+guests walked through the rock
27arches and windows on our routes
4.9/5average from 1,120 reviews
Expeditions · 2026–27 season
Pick your hole in the rock.
from $189
Length1 day
Distance5.8 mi
LevelEasy–Moderate
Arches & Windows
Moab, UT · 1d · 5.8 mi
from $159
Length1 day
Distance4.1 mi
LevelEasy
Fire Wave & Elephant Rock
Valley of Fire, NV · 1d · 4.1 mi
from $540
Length2 days
Distance3.2 mi
LevelEasy
Slot Canyon Light
Page, AZ · 2d · 3.2 mi
from $1,290Permit
Length3 days
Distance6.4 mi
LevelStrenuous
The Wave Lottery Trek
Coyote Buttes, AZ · 3d · 6.4 mi
from $610New
Length2 days
Distance8.0 mi
LevelModerate
Honeycomb Walls
San Rafael Swell, UT · 2d · 8.0 mi
from $1,480
Length4 days
Distance12 mi
LevelModerate
Monument Valley Overland
Oljato, UT · 4d · 12 miRock guide
Six ways a rock gets a hole.
Hover a row to see it. Every formation below is on at least one of our routes, and your guide will explain it standing right next to it.
Tafoni
Salt crystals pry grains loose until pits merge into a honeycomb.
Canyonlands, UT
Arch
Frost widens a crack in a sandstone fin until the middle falls out.
Arches NP, UT
Slot canyon
Flash floods drill a hairline crack into a corridor 120 ft deep.
Page, AZ
Hoodoo
A hard caprock shields a soft column while the rim retreats.
Bryce Canyon, UT
Sandstone wave
Fossil dunes, cross-bedded and sanded smooth by wind.
Coyote Buttes, AZ
Window
Two alcoves erode from opposite sides until they meet.
Valley of Fire, NV
After dark add-on
At night, the holes fill with stars.
Arches is a certified International Dark Sky Park. After a day hike we drive back out, switch to red light and frame the Milky Way through a window in the rock.
Add to any trip · $65 Bortle 2 skies · Apr–Oct · 9 pm–midnight
How a trip runs
From your motel door to the arch and back.
Pickup before first light
We collect you in Moab, Page, Kanab or Las Vegas in a high-clearance van. Coffee is already in the cooler.
Trailhead briefing
Ten minutes on heat, water and crust. Everyone gets a 3-litre pack, trekking poles and a sun hoodie.
Walk the formations
Slow pace, frequent stops. The guide carries a satellite messenger and a full first-aid kit.
Lunch in the shade
Picnic in an alcove, then back to the van before the rock gets hot. Photos arrive by evening.
If you can walk 5 miles on uneven ground with a daypack, the Easy and Moderate trips are fine. The Wave trek involves 6.4 miles with no shade and some scrambling.
We enter the advance and daily lotteries for you. If neither draws, we switch to Coyote Buttes South or White Pocket and refund the price difference.
March to May and mid-September to November. Summer trips start at 5 am and finish by 11; we don't run midday hikes above 95°F.
Yes, from age 8 on day trips and 12 on multi-day trips. Kids under 16 get 30% off.
Reviews · 4.9 from 1,120
What guests say at the trailhead.
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Field notes
Written on the tailgate.
6 min readFraming the sky through Corona Arch without a crowd in shot
A 140-ft opening, a cable-and-ladder scramble and one trick for keeping strangers out of your frame.
4 min readReading tafoni: a five-minute field guide
Why sandstone turns into Swiss cheese, and how to tell an old pocket from a young one.
7 min readWhy the Wave lottery is worth losing twice
Sixty-four walkers a day, two ways to enter, and why our plan B is sometimes better than plan A.
Next departures
Seats are going. Pick yours.
Every departure runs with six guests at most. These are the next ones with space; the full calendar is on Dates & Prices.