Escape Adventures
Since 1992 they have shaped and led adventure travel vacations through some of the most awe-inspiring natural destinations in the world.
Each successive season, their passion for adventure grows through memorable moments. Fresh air, faith, fitness and friends are the building blocks for their ventures, the treasured experiences that keep them moving forward.
For those who have yet to tour with us, we appreciate the opportunity to introduce you to our family-run company and guiding principles of sustainability and adventure. Our portfolio specializes in Western North America and is rapidly growing internationally. Building on over 100 destinations, we cater to the full spectrum of active traveler, respective to fitness level and activity type. From road cyclist to mountain biker to electric biker, hiker, and multi-sport enthusiast, and from first-timer to friends and family groups of all ability levels, on behalf of our Escape Adventures family, we look forward to many new and exciting adventures with you.
Canyonlands, Arches and Moab Best
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
6 days (Bike: 5 days)
102 mi (~20mi per day)
Leisure
Some hills, On-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 2695
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Hike, Bike, Raft, Climb, and More!
Picture vibrant sandstone walls chiseled by the mighty Colorado River, lit by the evening glow of a desert sunset, and backed by a magnificent range of snow-capped mountains. In the midst of Utah’s Canyon Country, Moab’s backcountry provides the perfect setting for your multi-sport adventure.
At Arches, we’ll hike through a geological wonderland, where natural exhibits of pinnacles, arches, pedestals, and balancing rocks seem to defy the laws of physics. Contrasting colors, textures, and landforms distinguish the many vegetation zones of this canyon country, each offering its own kind of adventure. At Dead Horse Point and Island In The Sky, expansive views of maze-like chasms typify our road biking experience along the acclaimed mesa.
Moab’s canyon country’s vertical landscape challenges us with fantastic introductory canyoneering. And, while the Colorado River’s power is present everywhere throughout our adventure, nowhere is it better realized than on our exciting day of river rafting.
Adventure seekers lacking outdoors experience, or family-groups will find this tour a perfect match of package options and tempo.
The profusion of rides, coupled to wide variability of terrain makes this trip easy to customize. We can both accommodate and adapt this tour according to group-size; including seasoned riders, families, all the way to riders new to road biking.
Brian Head Singletrack
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
5 days (Bike: 5 days)
78 mi (~16mi per day)
Avid
Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1295
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Utah's Highest Ski Town
Brian Head Mountain stands magnificently, reaching 11,307 feet high above wildly scenic southern Utah. This broad and burly pinnacle is home to Utah’s highest ski and mountain bike resort. Riding in Brian Head translates into long, vertical-mile descents set in crisp, head clearing mountain air and big, high altitude scenery. Speaking more to detail, the sensational XC (cross-country) singletrack here is unquestionably friendly for any moderately skilled mountain biker. Ride amongst pines and Aspen forests, around stunning mountain lakes, only to be whisked past mesmerizingly deep-red hoodoos.
From a personal-professional place, Brian Head represents our genesis; one of Escape Adventure’s maiden voyages. Please, come savor this original with us.
Escalante and Capitol Reef Road Bike Tour
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
194 mi (~32mi per day)
Active
Big climbs, On-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 2465
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Ride America's Most Scenic Byway
Central Utah has one of the largest stretches of true backcountry left in the nation. This area remained uncharted until the mid-1800s and still harbors many natural treasures yet to be discovered. From the alpine heights of Dixie National Forest to the slickrock canyons of Escalante National Monument, central Utah is a quiet paradise reserved for the few willing to venture this far.
Our cycling tour goes eastward through contrasting desert scenery and high alpine forests along Utah Highway 12 (among Americas most scenic highways) to Capitol Reef National Park. Named for the white sandstone dome that bears a striking resemblance to our nation’s capitol building, this national park protects an immense uplift know as the Waterpocket Fold. Long winding roads cut through a maze of canyons and an assembly of arches and monoliths make it seem as if this natural uplift was custom-made just for cyclists! Between rides, we relax in the quaint hamlets of Boulder and Escalante. Remote and sparsely populated, this Escalante and Capitol Reef road bike tour is for anyone looking for un-crowded roads and a backcountry experience.
Escalante Singletrack Mountain Bike Tour
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
6 days (Bike: 5 days)
109 mi (~22mi per day)
Avid
Some hills, Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1995
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Aquarius Plateau & Calf Creek Falls
Escalante National Monument is one of the largest stretches of roadless wilderness left in the West. Amidst this epic high country, we find what celebrated adventure author Zane Grey described as “a stairway to the sky”: a 7650-ft. high plateau known as the Grand Staircase.
In the summer months, from the Aquarius Plateau—North America’s highest tableland or tectonic uplift—a series of 10,000 and 11,000-ft. peaks, with extraordinary vistas even for a state known for scenery, we follow primitive trails dotted by hidden lakes and streams. Large herds of elk crisscross the trail, while 13 types of raptors nest above. We admire canyon walls inscribed with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs and then relish in the cool, pure water cascading from 146-ft. high Calf Creek Falls.
From the high alpine terrain of the Aquarius Plateau, to the deep canyons of the Escalante River, discover a fantastic array of backcountry cycling! These primitive trails reveal secret canyons and spectacular mountain vistas. Trip highlights include cycling atop the highest plateau in North America, visiting John Wesley Powell’s favorite lookout point, cycling across Hell’s Backbone and the exciting Gap Mountain Trail.
For skilled riders who match go-deep endurance with long-in-the-saddle experience, Escalante Mountain Singletrack is nothing less than a superb, multifaceted trip. Conversely, the Escalante Intro Tour provides all the same enormous vistas, though set on far less challenging dirt roads mixed with doubletracks.
While Escalante Singletrack has more dirt road mileage than singletrack mileage, the singletrack is primitive and challenging and therefore takes the better part of the riding.
Grand Canyon North Rim
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
4 days (Bike: 4 days)
79 mi (~20mi per day)
Leisure
Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 999
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
While nearly all of North America reels under hot summertime temperatures, the North Rim, at 9000-feet, offers delightfully cool, high altitudes escape.
A raw-cut jewel in our national park system if not one of the most awe-inspiring features on Earth, the Grand Canyon’s incomparable majesty sunders nearly 280-miles of Northern Arizona highlands.
No less than two-billion years of the earth’s history is on display here in the vermillion cliff-faces and golden canyon walls that rise a mile into the sky. From his dory that plied the unbridled Colorado River, early explorer Major John Wesley Powell compared it to “leaves in a great history book.”
This geologic virtuoso, one of America’s first national parks, was one of our three original trip destinations. Gazing over the Canyon’s 9,200-ft North Rim, the immediate reaction of our guests runs from fear to reverie, and all agree that the old Arizona and Rainbow Rim Trails are the best ways to experience the Grand Canyon.
Concealed in big Ponderosa pine and shimmering Aspen groves, our trail through Kaibab National Forest wends to a place that few have visited: the East Rim View. From our campsite on the edge of the Kaibab Plateau, we savor extraordinary views. Trails brimming with wildflowers bring us to exhilarating hikes along the rim. Crossing over to the west side of the plateau, we camp alongside one of the most scenic mountain bike paths in the world, the Rainbow Rim Trail.
Providing gently rolling terrain of lung-expanding dimensions, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has been long-held as almost sacred ground to hikers and cyclists. For trekkers and active travelers of all levels, the chance to experience this singular section of Eternity is nothing less than the opportunity of a lifetime.
Escalante Intro MTB Tour
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
6 days (Bike: 5 days)
83 mi (~17mi per day)
Leisure
Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1995
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Escalante National Monument is one of the largest stretches of roadless wilderness left in the West.
Amidst this epic high country, we find what celebrated adventure author Zane Grey described as “a stairway to the sky”: a 7650-ft. high plateau known as the Grand Staircase.
In the summer months, from the Aquarius Plateau—North America’s highest tableland or tectonic uplift—a series of 10,000 and 11,000-ft. peaks, with extraordinary vistas even for a state known for scenery, we follow primitive trails dotted by hidden lakes and streams. Large herds of elk crisscross the trail, while 13 types of raptors nest above. We admire canyon walls inscribed with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs and then relish in the cool, pure water cascading from 146-ft. high Calf Creek Falls.
From the high alpine terrain of the Aquarius Plateau, to the deep canyons of the Escalante River, discover a fantastic array of backcountry cycling! These primitive trails reveal secret canyons and spectacular mountain vistas. Trip highlights include cycling atop the highest plateau in North America, visiting John Wesley Powell’s favorite lookout point, cycling across Hell’s Backbone and the exciting Gap Mountain Trail.
For skilled riders who match go-deep endurance with long-in-the-saddle experience, Escalante Mountain Singletrack is nothing less than a superb, multifaceted trip. Conversely, the Escalante Intro Tour provides all the same enormous vistas, though set on far less challenging dirt roads mixed with doubletracks.
Idaho Hot Springs Intro
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
5 days (Bike: 5 days)
75 mi (~15mi per day)
Leisure
Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1349
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Soothing Hot Springs
Picture yourself cruising into camp, thoroughly gassed but still blissed out by a mountain bike trail that truly took your measure. Before you can kick off your cycling shoes, you’re led to a freshly prepared, scrumptious dinner. Beyond that multicourse fare, lay a cascading natural hot spring. Can you handle that truth: five days of fast if transfixing mountain bike rides, bookended by brilliant hot springs and wild rivers make up the deliverables, cut and shaped by the strong-featured Sawtooth Mountains.
We ride beneath the shadows of Greylock Mountain, cycling quick chutes through the Boise and Payette river backcountry. Like off-ramps to paradise, our course features stopovers at a succession of remote natural hot springs. Other highlights include a triad of noteworthy mining towns: Atlanta, Lowman, and Pine.
This tour merges kinder-gentler riding with soothing hot spring soaks. We’ve taken the best scenery, historic sights, and terrain from our classic Hot Springs tour, and made it accessible for beginning and intermediate riders. We take advantage of Idaho’s extensive network of jeep road and doubletrack so that van support can be available for riders to customize their rides. Mother Nature’s healing waters, forever sought by people the world over, await us each night, witnessed only by the starry constellations overhead.
Santa Cruz Singletrack
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
4 days (Bike: 4 days)
78 mi (~20mi per day)
Active
Some hills, Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1899
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Redwoods and Coastal Riding
Nicknamed “Surf City”, Santa Cruz’s identity ranges from a college town, distinctive for its thriving counterculture, to big Redwood-groves, omnipresent greenbelts, and barking sea lions.
Our trip leans towards organic farms, the flourishing artisanal beer and wine scene, as well as long stretches of free spirited, primo singletrack. Wilder Ranch State Park, a 700-acre coast hugging preserve, boasts beautiful trails amongst Brussels sprout fields and towering Redwoods. Respectfully built around a 19th century dairy ranch, Gothic Revival farmhouses and a Victorian residence, Wilder Ranch is as much about cultural moorings as it is easy-on-the-eyes pastoral. From regal structures to beachcombing, big bluffs to inland canyons, we explore it all; places that come with their own informal history lesson.
From offbeat tolerant Santa Cruz, we head in a figuratively far different direction. At the Monterrey Bay beachfront, we find the immaculately groomed Fort Ord. It was here that over one million U.S servicemen trained from 1917-1944. As Wilder Ranch served as the opening act, the thick forest and cornucopia of trails we find at the “playground” in Soquel Demonstration State Park will flat-out steal the show.
From Mexican land grant turned logging company reserve turned state forest (1988), the Soquel Demo is now the Bay Area’s number one mountain bike park. The 19-signature trails here total 27-miles: they range from the advanced Braille DH (with bypasses) to six different Flow Trails, (think more intermediate). The highest trail reaches 2558-ft; conversely the down hills total 14-miles of distance. That’s a lot of whoop.
From 40,000-acres of lush coastal preserves to great spans of giant Redwoods, “Cool” Santa Cruz to the rich literary history around Monterrey, this plum-riding destination energies and harmonic resonances is unlike any other Escape Adventure.
Ojai & Santa Barbara
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
143 mi (~24mi per day)
Leisure
Some hills, On-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 3499
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Ojai’s Olive Country to Solvang’s Vineyards
Where wine culture meets road bike culture, layered and built out with soft touches, historic sites, if not all manner of stunning looks and experiences along California’s Central Coast.
From Santa Barbara, all its luxury and nightlife, we dissolve into the California of old: gracious, Spanish architecture, ranchland and oak groves, all crossed by wonderfully scenic cyclo-touring routes.
From tasting the sea air on one long stage along the coast, the next sense might be the heady board wax from a leisurely stroll past an iconic surf shop… or the scrumptious bouquet wafting from a world-class wine-tasting room.
Talk about transporting… From following the very same stage as the 2018 Amgen Tour of California (the second), we indulge in another very Californian experience: an afternoon at the spa; a Himalayan stone massage chased by the Total Cleanse, or the Wellness Juice.
Crested Butte Singletrack Bike Tour
Tour Operator: Escape Adventures
USA
5 days (Bike: 5 days)
Avid
Off-road
Guided
Supported
Prices from
Guided
US$ 1449
Overview
Tour Operator Escape Adventures
Wildflower Singletrack Tour
The Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains has forever been called, The Real Colorado. This side of The Centennial State hosts the highest number of 14’ers. All that breathtaking vert has given rise to some extreme skiing destinations and also some of Colorado’s most treasured, eclectic mountain towns.
Like a surf town in the mountains, Crested Butte lives for its hip local arts and theatre scene and an absurd number of yearly concerts and festivals. Below Gothic Mountain (12,625-ft), the stretch of colorfully painted historic buildings up and down Elk Avenue date back to the 1800s, when Crested Butte stood at the forefront of Colorado coal country.
Above the town that time magically forgot, the singletrack of The Rockies just doesn’t get any better for mountain bikers. Set against some of the most physically inspiring backdrops in The West, our Crested Butte trip offers total immersion in Colorado’s centuries-spanning cycling culture.
You’ll find breathtaking, roller-coaster climbs, fueled by rejuvenating mountain air. After which, come the thoroughly rewarding descents. The thrill of the ride combined with the unique points of interest are sure to bring a smile to your face. From rich ancient Amerindian culture, to frozen-in-time mining towns, the Colorado Rockies beckon.