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August 17, 2026

Across Arizona Tours Makes the Drive as Good as the Destination

Planning and Budgeting
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August 17, 2026
August 17, 2026

A Company Built by People Who Actually Love This State

Leonardo Gem and Carole Stapleton started Across Arizona Tours in 2002 with a pretty simple idea: give people a real Arizona experience without charging them a fortune for it. Both still own and run the company today, and it shows in how the tours are built. Nothing feels templated. The guides talk geology, Native American history, wildlife, and the small-town stories that never make it into a guidebook, because the people who founded this company are genuinely into that stuff, not just reciting a script. Twenty-plus years in, they're still framing the mission the same way: quality tours, real hospitality, guides who know what they're talking about, and a price that doesn't feel like a tourist tax.

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Four Very Different Ways to See Arizona

The lineup covers the state's biggest hits without ever feeling like a checklist. The Sedona Red Rocks and Wine Country tour swings past Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, and the Chapel of the Holy Cross, stops for lunch in Sedona, gives the group time to browse the galleries uptown, and ends with a wine tasting out in Page Springs. The Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend tour is the long haul, a full day north to stand at the edge of Horseshoe Bend and walk through Upper Antelope Canyon with a Navajo guide leading the way through the slot walls. Apache Trail Histories and Mysteries takes a completely different angle, following Route 88 through the Superstition Mountains to the Superstition Mountain Museum, a narrow-gauge train ride through Goldfield Ghost Town, and lunch at Tortilla Flat's old saloon. And the Grand Canyon with Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon tour is the big one, a full day tracing the drive from Sonoran Desert up through Ponderosa Pine forest to the rim itself, with Sedona and Oak Creek worked in on the way.

Guides Who Make the Drive the Good Part

Across Arizona Tours holds a 4.7 out of 5 across more than 750 reviews on Tripadvisor, and almost every one of them is really a review of a specific guide. Kim gets called out for being fun and sharp on the Grand Canyon and Sedona route. Frank and Jeff both show up in reviews for keeping guests engaged for three-plus hours each way without it ever feeling like dead time. Eric's known for turning the long drives into something closer to a game, running trivia on what the group's picked up along the way. People consistently ask to book the same guide again on their next trip, which says more about the quality of the guiding than any marketing copy could.

Built for Groups, Not Just Couples on a Day Off

Vans cap out at ten people, which keeps things personal instead of turning into a tour-bus shuffle, but the company's custom group tours option is where this really opens up for parties. Their in-house tour planners will build a one-day or multi-day itinerary around whatever a group needs, whether that's a corporate offsite, a family reunion, a milestone birthday, or a bachelor or bachelorette weekend that wants something more memorable than another pool day. Pickups work out of both Phoenix and Scottsdale, so wherever the group is staying, getting everyone in the van is the easy part.

Scottsdale

👉 Book the Sedona Red Rocks and Wine Country Tour

👉 Book the Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend Tour

👉 Book the Apache Trail Histories and Mysteries

👉 Book the Grand Canyon with Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon Tour

Phoenix

👉 Book the Sedona Red Rocks and Wine Country Tour

👉 Book the Apache Trail Histories and Mysteries

👉 Book the Grand Canyon With Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon Tour

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