Home to five national parks, the State of Utah is gearing up to showcase unique itineraries in the great and vast outdoors to their thousands of annual park visitors in celebration of America's National Parks centenary of stewardship on 25 August 2016.

Utah's Mighty 5® National Parks of Canyonlands, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion will be showcasing summer tours for sightseeing the hoodoos and natural rock formations, river rafting, mule riding, hiking and stargazing.

Tour companies in the town of Moab Utah, only 8km from Arches National Park have developed unique trip leader tours providing a wealth of local information to share, whether visitors are driving, hiking or on a photography tour. 

Guests will take a journey of history and geology amongst the abundant nature enveloped in the awe inspiring scenery.

Tours vary from 4x4 drives to scenic bus tours, sunset tours or hiking tours.   For further options on touring Arches National Park see http://discovermoab.com/archesnationalpark.htm#commercial

In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the US National Parks, IMAX will also release a movie set to hit screens in Sydney and Melbourne from February 25, 2016.   All five of Utah's National Parks will feature.

For additional information on travelling to The Mighty 5® see www.VisitUtah.com or Watch the teaser video highlighting the best of each park's key attributes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlKOcyf915M

For further information or to obtain high res images please contact:

Joanne Motta

Media Relations Australia/NZ

C/- Canuckiwi GSA Visit Utah

Email: joanne@canuckiwi.com

Phone: +61 403 180 751