If you're going to Monument Valley, I'd stay in the View hotel, therefore you'll be right there for

I think this forum is very usefull :) My BF and I would like to plan a trip to America in September. It will be my first time in America. Our biggest problem = time. We only have 17 days. My BF would love to go a few days to New York and from there to the Niagara Falls.
From Niagara Falls (I think best airport is Buffalo?) we would like to fly to San Fransisco to start our road trip. We would like to spend 2 days in San Fransisco for sight seeing and a little shopping.
After that we are thinking of visiting: Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, europe travel guides Bryce, Zion, and Arches. What is the best sequence and route for all these places? (We have to end at an airport, Las Vegas, Denver, Salt Lake City?)
As you can see I used an extra day for this schedule to make it doable. Do you have tips for this trip? To shorten the drive-distance, nice places for sleeping, eating, more places to see, or better skip places. Please let me know :)
That's quite hectic pace in places. For instance, 2 days to get from SF to LA Via Yosemite and Sequoia will hardly leave you anytime europe travel guides to see these amazing places and after LA the pace continues in the same manner. On paper, yes it's doable but I would think about cutting back a bit, where [if at all] would be your choice. You could drop Sequoia and head from Yosemite to Vegas by crossing the mountains on CA120 [Tioga pass] and then Zion, Bryce, europe travel guides Moab through Monument valley and end in LA. On a personal level I would most likely drop LA and enjoy the wonderful scenery the Southwest has to offer. If that's not an option perhaps europe travel guides choose between Niagara and Moab/Capitol Reef.
Sequoia and Yosemite are each cases where you'll need to be on the road for 7-8 hours before you stop for sightseeing at 2 huge parkes, and then with Bryce and Zion you're trying to see 2 parks on a day where you'll be on the road for at least 6 hours.
If you're going to Monument Valley, I'd stay in the View hotel, therefore you'll be right there for sunset sunrise which is when the place is at it's best and best times for photography (sunset especially).
We did something similar last year. 3 nights in NYC then flew over to Vegas and began our roadtrip. Most rental places dont have a one way fee between Vegas and SFO (which is where we ended our trip)
We did it in 2 and a half weeks and had to drop LA which worked out better as we had a few days in Yosemite which I would recommend. Looking to go to Arches, Capitol Reef etc in Sept ourselves so can't advise you on that but definitely europe travel guides drop LA and Sequoia, spend 2 nights europe travel guides in Yosemite and then drive along the Tioga pass, onto the 395 (I think) stay somewhere around Bishop and then drive through Death Valley into Vegas.
Thank you all for your replies. I realise we have not much time to see everything we would like to see on our trip. We are considering to drop NY city + Niagara Falls. That would give us some more breathing space.
Yesterday we figured out the best days/times/prices for flying tickets. Leaving San Francisco on monday instead of sunday, gives us the possibility to fly in the evening instead of morning. That means we have 1 day extra :) But we also need one more day off from work. Leaving Amsterdam one day later results in much higher ticket prices (more than I earn in one day work) So thats not an option :p
Your trip is a little europe travel guides 'messy' [unfinished] after Kingman, but before europe travel guides I go into detail could you tell us if it is still possible to fly out from LA, or whether you are already booked to fly out of San Fran ?
But we really dont want to miss San Francisco and Yosemite. I agree it's a bit messy at the end. If it was up to me, I would drop Victorville and LA right away. And drive from Kingman to Las Vegas, through Tioaga pass to Yosemite, like we would do if we run out of time.
Mojave is a boneyard where old airplanes are stored and preserved. europe travel guides There isn't much activity there and you can't get close enough to the flight europe travel guides line to see much. It is not open to the public, anything you see must be seen from outside the fence. The only aircraft storage facility that I'm aware of that has tours is the military boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB outside of Tucson AZ.
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