About us
Meet the people you will travel with
Southwest Adventure Tours provides local, experienced guides who work hard to provide travelers with the best experience in the Southwest.
GuideAnn Evans
25 years with Utah’s Department of Natural Resources, most of them as a State Parks ranger and naturalist. An EMT for 12 years.
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GuideChris Vander Wilt
President of the Utah Tour Guide Association. Guiding custom tours across the West since 2011.
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GuideDennis Bailey
Grew up in Moab with Arches and Canyonlands as his backyard. A professional land surveyor.
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GuideKirk Douglass
A peak bagger: Mount Whitney, Mount Elbert, Wheeler Peak and the Grand Teton.
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GuidePhil Douglass
32 years with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, known as “Utah’s Wildlife Ambassador.” Kirk’s younger brother, and a cowboy poet.
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GuideRobin Luse
Left a career in radio in 1999 to guide. Based in Albuquerque, with us since 2014.
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GuideShybree Richens
Grew up in St. George, near Zion. She loves photography, so you will get a good picture.
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Who we are
A Utah company that loves to share the West
Southwest Adventure Tours was created by a combination of our deep love for experiencing all the wonders that surround us and a passion for sharing these wonders with others.
At Southwest Adventure Tours it would be our pleasure to tour with you! We are travel enthusiasts and we would love nothing more than to “Explore, Experience, Enrich” with each and every one of our guests. When you are on one of our tours, adventure awaits!
Southwest Adventure Tours’ highest mission is to provide our guests the opportunity to build lasting memories through creating exceptional experiences that will touch their heart, mind, and soul.
On the road with our groups
Groups of two to fourteen, and a guide who has been there before. Every photograph here is one of ours, on one of our trips.

Zion, Checkerboard Mesa 
Alaska, Exit Glacier 
Arches, Balanced Rock 
On the trail 
Yosemite 
Zion, with the van
Work with us
Love to travel and want to share it with others? You may be a great fit for the growing SWAT team. See current openings ›
How we work: our three steps of service, service values and employee promise
Southwest Adventure Tours Motto “Explore, Experience, Enrich!”
Three Steps Of Service
- A warm and sincere greeting.
- Use the guest's name. Anticipation and fulfillment of each guest's needs.
- Fond farewell. Give a warm good-bye and use the guest's name.
Service Values: I Am Proud To Be Southwest Adventure Tours
- I build strong relationships and create SWAT guests for life.
- I am always responsive to the expressed and unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.
- I am empowered to create unique, memorable and personal experiences for our guests.
- I understand my role in achieving the Key Success Factors (AO, employee and customer engagement, community involvement, product service excellence and financial performance).
- I continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve the Southwest Adventure Tours experience.
- I own and immediately resolve guest problems.
- I create a work environment of teamwork and lateral service so that the needs of our guests and each other are met.
- I have the opportunity to continuously learn and grow.
- I am involved in the planning of the work that affects me.
- I am proud of my professional appearance, language and behavior.
- I protect the privacy and security of our guests, my fellow employees and the company's confidential information and assets.
- I am responsible for uncompromising levels of cleanliness and creating a safe and accident-free environment.
The Employee Promise At Southwest Adventure Tours, our Ladies and Gentlemen are the most important resource in our service commitment to our guests. By applying the principles of trust, honesty, respect, integrity and commitment, we nurture and maximize talent to the benefit of each individual and the company. Southwest Adventure Tours fosters a work environment where diversity is valued, quality of life is enhanced, individual aspirations are fulfilled, and Southwest Adventure Tours is strengthened.
Travel with one of them
Small groups of 2–14, departing Las Vegas, Phoenix and Salt Lake City.






