Goblin Valley Backroads 4WD Tour
Goblin Valley Backroads 4WD Tour
Full Day (7-8 hours)
This is an amazing tour, our favorite! Hopefully, you’ll agree, this may be your most memorable trip! We take the less traveled back roads in our luxury 4X4 vehicle to Goblin Valley for a unique one-day tour of some of Utah’s most interesting geologic formations. Along the way, we’ll drive through lunar and Martian-like landscapes and pass by the iconic Factory Butte, pass through wonderfully colored bentonite hills, ford a river and travel along the edge of the San Rafael Reef to Goblin Valley State Park where you’ll explore a valley full of stone hoodoos and goblins, a landscape often compared to Mars. Photo opportunities abound on this tour.
Goblin Valley is always a favorite destination where your imagination runs wild and is the highlight of any trip through Utah’s National and State Parks.
- Drive through Capitol Reef National Park
- Pass by Factory Butte
- Drive through lunar and Martian landscapes
- Ford a desert river
- Drive along the San Rafael Reef
- Explore and play in Goblin Valley
- See Native American pictographs that are thousands of years old
Why tour Goblin valley?
The backroads to Goblin Valley offer some amazing scenery and geology. Tourists that take the highway will never see these due to the rugged and sandy trails that only a high clearance 4X4 vehicle can negotiate. This is certainly the best way to experience your visit to Goblin Valley!