Palisade's Agritours | Colorado Wine Country Tours
Brewilery Tour | National Parks Tours

Palisade’s Agritours

With a backdrop of dramatic cliffs and towering mesas, Palisade’s agritours offer a special experience in a pastoral setting of orchards and vineyards.  Opportunities abound for visitors to learn how fruit, wine, and farm products are grown from the ground up and prepared and sent to market.  Each business presents a one-of-a-kind experience.  Visitors can tour orchards, vineyards, and farms, see production facilities and packing sheds, and even learn how wine, distilled spirits and beer are made.

Tours include organic orchards; community supported agriculture; packaged fruit products; fruit stands; large commercial orchards; alpaca and lavender farms; vineyards and wineries; brewery and distillery.  Indoor tours of wineries and distillery and brewery operations capture the craftsmanship of beverage-making.  Visitors can learn about lavender uses, milling alpaca wool, or packing tree-ripened peaches.  Enjoy a guided tour from the comfort of an air-conditioned van.

Most tours will involve walking on uneven, working soil.  For comfort and safety, we discourage open-toed and high-heel shoes and encourage comfortable clothing. Sunscreen, a hat and water are recommended.  Be sure to bring your camera!

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Colorado Wine Country Tours: Half-day Tour

Yes, Colorado has a delightful wine country! Join American Spirit Shuttle on a fun, comprehensive tour as you learn how the local boutique wineries hand-craft the Colorado grapes and other valley-grown fruits into award-winning wines.

Pass by orchards,vineyards and outdoor art studios on the way to visit some of the Valley’s charming, friendly, small scale wineries producing big flavor wines. On the tour you will learn about wine making from the vine to the bottle -- often from the owner or wine maker. Your driver will know the lesser-known wineries, which ones make the style of wines you prefer, and how to customize the tour for you.

Brewilery Tour: Half-day Tour
This new tour focuses on the art of creating wonderful flavors. It is for those who love shiny tanks and wonder “how is that made?” Gain insight into the arts of brewing, vinification and distillation, accompanied by moderate tastings.

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National Parks Tours

There are three National Parks and the Colorado National Monument within day-tour range of Grand Junction. American Spirit Shuttle shares these magnificent treasures with you from one of their scheduled or custom tours. Park entrance fees are
included in the tour price.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Grand Mesa: Full-day Tour

Marvel at the unique and spectacular landscape of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park where you will see the famous Painted Wall. Peer into the depths of this gorge to the Gunnison River 1,500 feet below. No other canyon in North America combines the narrow opening, sheer walls, and startling depths of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

This tour also takes you to Grand Mesa, the largest flat-top mountain and home to more than 200 lakes. Traveling across the scenic Grand Mesa, at over 10,800 feet, you will enjoy spectacular vistas, drive through beautiful meadows, and see magnificent alpine lakes.

Colorado National Monument: Half-day tour

Experience the majesty of Colorado National Monument as you drive along the rim of deep, sheer-walled canyons, past towering red sandstone monoliths. Colorado National Monument encompasses 32 square miles, and billions of years of earth’s history, including some of the oldest rock exposed on the Colorado Plateau. Enjoy opportunities to listen to the silence, broken only by the call of a raven. Smell the desert plants, race a collard lizard and learn about the human history of the park.

Arches & Canyonlands National Parks: Full-day Tour

Arches National Park preserves two thousand natural sandstone arches. Rich colors, textures, and landforms highlight the extraordinary balanced rocks, fins, and pinnacles. Tour the Windows and world famous Delicate Arch.

Canyonlands National Park offers a stunning landscape of countless canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Green and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries. Experience the astounding size and solitude from the Island in the Sky section.

**Arches photo by L. Lynch, NPS

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