Group travel planning · Verde Crossing, Arizona
Most trips start with a map, a handful of index cards and one person holding the pencil. Send us the rough version — who’s coming and roughly when — and we’ll help you turn it into a route everybody can keep up with.
Sample group days
Every itinerary we build starts as a row of index cards. This is the shape most group days settle into — tell us which of these your group actually wants, and we’ll string them into a route with driving times, maps and a plan B for the hot afternoon.
Stop 01 · early
Park, count heads, hand out maps. This is where the group splits into the walkers and the lingerers — and both of those are fine.
Stop 02 · mid-morning
Build one short, flat walk into every day. It keeps the slower half of the group in the trip instead of waiting in the car.
Stop 03 · midday
Shops, shade and somewhere to sit. Send us your group’s pace and we’ll tell you how much of the middle of the day to leave open.
Stop 04 · midday
Seat people in a different order than the bus. It quietly fixes half of a group’s politics before the afternoon starts.
Stop 05 · afternoon
Printed maps for the glovebox, downloads for everybody’s phone, and trail notes for when the signal drops on the way out.
Stop 06 · evening
The part people talk about on the drive home. Keep it loose, and keep it within a short walk of wherever the group is staying.
Six cards now. A real itinerary by the time we’re done with it.
What’s on the table
Everything here starts with a request. You don’t need the trip figured out first — rough counts and a rough month are enough to get moving.
The printed guide, mailed to you. It’s the thing that ends up in the passenger seat and later on somebody’s kitchen table.
Tell us how many are coming, how long you have and how far your group walks in a day. We sketch the days and send them back.
Send your dates and we’ll flag what’s happening while your group is in town, so you’re not planning around guesswork.
Trail notes and maps your group can print at home or carry on a phone for when the signal drops on the way out.
Booked group time for buses, clubs, reunions and anyone arriving with more than a couple of cars.
Event calendar
Group trips live or die on timing. Tell us your window and we’ll tell you what’s on the calendar, which nights fill first and where the quiet days sit.
Book lodging before you book anything else, and build one flexible afternoon into every day of the trip.
Start early and finish before the heat of the afternoon. For every day out, keep one shaded option you can swap in.
The best walking weather of the year. If your group can move midweek, take it and stop worrying about crowds.
Shorter days and low light in the late afternoon. Good for smaller groups that like a slower pace.
Group inquiry
The more you tell us up front, the less back and forth later. Rough answers are welcome — “about twenty, sometime in October” is a real answer.
Start here
Ask for the guide and we’ll put it in the post along with the trail and map downloads for your group. If you already know your dates, start the group inquiry instead — or do both in one go.
Pull up a chair — we’ve got the map out already.