6-Day West Coast National Parks Tour from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon

The bus pulls away from the steps of San Francisco’s stately civic plaza as morning light silver-lines the bay. Passengers trade streetcars for wide windows and a guide’s low hum: today the city’s fog-thinned skyline gives way to an unfolding geography—orchards, granite faces, desert salt flats and the canyon-carved throat of the Colorado River. Over six days the trip reads like a stitched map of the American West, with stopovers that move between quick urban walks—Lombard Street, Fisherman’s Wharf and a Bay cruise under the Golden Gate—and long quiet at rock and river.