Walk Softly Tours is unsurpassed in Southwestern travel.  Owned and staffed by native Arizonans and Native Americans, Walk Softly Tours brings you the ultimate in knowledge of the West and all the wonders seasoned travelers expect from an eco-tour.  Our educational backgrounds are in natural history, biology, botany, geology, anthropology, paleoanthropology, archaeology, and photography.  Unlike many eco-tour guides though, we don't lecture, we explore.

Our Custom southwest tours encompass the entire southwest, specializing in the state and national parks and the history of the Anasazi from the archaic period, through the pit house period, the Chacoan empire and up to the modern era pueblos.  We also customize your Arizona history tours to copper country in southern Arizona.  Each tour is customized to the exact goals and wishes of the group organizer.

Our Educational Workshops feature native Arizona guides and native American Indian guides from the Hopi, Navajo and Ute tribes.  We customize each and every tour for Middle School through high school and college to meet the requirements of the curriculum set forth by teachers and professors.  Our tours go to both northern and southern Arizona, southern Utah, western New Mexico and south western Colorado.  The most common destinations are Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Hopi, the Navajo Reservation, Meteor Crater, Bisbee and Fort Huachuca.

The Chacoan Empire.  Our feature tour is geared to ancient Indian culture and history, specializing in the Chacoan Empire.  The Chacoan Empire lasted from around 850AD to roughly 1275 AD.  Utilizing exhibits at the national parks, we cover the Chacoan history from its very early pit houses to its great houses and grand kivas, until the collapse and eventual abandonment of the Colorado Plateau.   Archeologist Steve Lexson calls Chaco a wonderful, awful place where men gained power over other men.  Our tour takes you to the places this grand experiment happened and details its history for you in narrative form, so its entertaining as well as informative.

Come explore with us, this wondrous land and learn about its diversity, its incredibly interconnected nature, its immense history and its frightening fragility.

For a photo album of our last college tour  click here.  For a terrific video shot by one of our guests in March, click here.

"We take a tour to somewhere in the world every year and this was the best tour we have ever been on".  Marilyn and friends, upon returning from the Hopi / Navajo Tour