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Moab Family Mountain Bike and Multi-Sport Vacations
DREAMRIDE of MOAB, UTAH provides families with guided private hiking and cycling day tours and vacation packages that include custom-tuned mountain bike ride series, optional daily activities, food and a choice of lodgings. Founded by an educator, documentary film director, author, artist and father, Dreamride offers rare interpretive guiding for curious teens and young adults. Our guides are scientists and herbalists, who specialize in sharing knowledge of the Utah Canyonlands. Family trips are personally overseen and/or guided by company owners, Lee and Miki Bridgers, who have been guiding families together since 1996. Your trip with Dreamride can include road cycling, mountain biking, hiking and swimming. Because every Dreamride family trip is private, we arrange itineraries to suit the fitness, needs and desires of your collective family group. And since there are two guides (sometimes three) available for Dreamride's family trips at all times, it is possible to split the group to cater to members who enjoy more technical mountain bike challenges or need to take a break with an easy hike and swim. For couples and families no larger than three or four, we offer private full service custom charter trips in HAWAII, also guided by company owners, Lee and Miki Bridgers.
CLICK HERE FOR PAYMENT AND RESERVATION POLICIES RELATING TO FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN.
Is your teenager interested in being a mountain bike racer or simply wants to hone his or her skills? Dreamride's SKILLS CLINICS are a great supplement for any mountain bike vacation package and are guaranteed to elevate the technique of riders of any skill level--this means you, too, dad and mom. In 2009 we added a "mini-clinic" to specifically serve those who simply need a bit of attention in order to increase skills and awareness.
For a complete list of packages click on VACATION CATALOG. Any of the offerings can be set up and/or customized for your family. Technical mountain bike or water sports skills are not a prerequisite, though a reasonable level of fitness is required. Dreamride's family day tours and vacations are private, which means your family will not have to deal with trying to keep up with hammerheads or slowed by unfit riders.
In Moab our most popular family vacation has been based on our 3D format that includes three days of riding and four nights of accommodations. Our 4D includes a rest day in the middle, which has proven most appropriate for families. For a sample of trails that will help you understand our skills ratings, click on MOAB MTB TRAILS. For a sample list of hiking expeditions suitable for families with children click on MOAB HIKING TRAILS. For a list of 4WD trails that can be substituted into any package or conquered as a 4WD sag supported mountain bike or hiking combo, go to 4WD. For Moab off-season opportunities click on HIKE-BIKE-SKI MOAB.
Hike and Swim! Hike up a beautiful desert canyon to a private swimming hole. We have three separate locations for this kind of fun and we will choose the site perfect for your families interests, strength and skills. Rock Art, wildlife, long hike, short hike--visits are decided upon as the vacation progresses to suit your fancy, skills, or the weather.
*Note: You may subsitute any bike or hike day tour in Arches National Park or Canyonlands National Park for any one of the three day tours. The sample above is for less skilled families with kids from 7 to 13 years of age. A more challenging itinerary is possible.
Flexibility: After sampling your first day tour, follow-up selections can be altered at any time during your stay to satisfy the curiosity of the family for any subject or endeavor. This is one of the many benefits of a private package.
"Mountain Bike America's Moab guide is setting a new standard for guidebooks. Lee Bridgers' first-hand accounts give the reader a sense that they have some behind-the-scenes information about Moab." ~ Brian Fiske, Senior Editor of Mountain Bike Magazine
Lee Bridgers' Moab guidebook is now available in bookstores around the world. To order a signed copy for $25 including shipping and handling call 1-888-662-2882. If you are booking a family vacation and have kids under the age of 18, the book comes free with your information packet. All proceeds from sales in Moab are donated to Grand County Search and Rescue.
You and your children have our undivided attention and, because we offer rare flexibility, we adjust to weather and special opportunities on-the-fly. The amazing things that happen during our trips, the "Dreamride moment," as clients have described it, are always accidental, in a very good way. We time our rides for the best experience. We see double rainbows, desert cats of all types, coyotes, rabbits (coyotes and bobcats chasing rabbits), and other wildlife because we cater only to the smallest groups, time our rides carefully and choose our trails specifically for the desired experience. We offer night rides on the full moon and crystal clear creek swims in stunning sandstone canyons and scenic lakes. Joyous romps through the magic terrain of Utah, Colorado and Hawaii are accompanied by natural science and history interpretation. Do your kids love dinosaurs? We will take them to a quarry, show them tracking spots and give them a dino bone shard to take home.
Sample Three Day Family Package
The following 3D private family tour package is a sample intinerary for a fit family of novice mountain bikers. It includes Dreamride's Elite Service Upgrade, four nights accommodations at the best Inn in Moab, next door to our shop and guesthome. The three day tours are up to 6 hours in length. The price includes bikes (kids must fit a 26" wheeled bike), transportation to and from the trail, snacks and meals on the trail, and Moab's best interpretive and educational guides.
The Dino Slickrock Ride takes place in an area rich in dinosaur bone deposits, as well as Native American stone artifacts. The trip culminates in a mellow slickrock playground perfect for young novices longing for bragging rights. This ride can include a visit to a dinosaur bone quarry.
*Kane Creek Canyon Day Tour. This is 4WD supported bike tour that treats adults and kids to Native American Rock Art and a mellow bike cruise that can be as long as any rider in the group wants it to be. Our sag wagon is always there to rescue anyone from fatigue. Side hikes to dino tracks, fossils, and petroglyphs make this a very rewarding and educational tour for kids as young as five years old.
Need a Guidebook for Moab?
"There are trail guides; and then there's the real deal." ~ Bike Magazine
Call 1 (888) MOAB UTAH in the states.
If you are calling from foreign shores the number is 435-259-6419.
FAX number is 435-259-8196.
or write to: Dreamride
P.O. Box 1137
Moab, UT 84532
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