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Smartphone Driving Tour between Denver & Vail / Breckenridge

Vail, USA

Self Guided Audio Driving Tour b w Boulder and Vail CO I 70 Tripvia Tours

1 to 2 hours
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Embark on a self-guided tour along Colorado's spectacular I-70 highway with an immersive audioguide. This immersive and informative tourism app is the perfect way to enhance your Rocky Mountains road trip. As you traverse the picturesque route between Denver and Vail, you'll encounter dozens of sights, including the Dillon Reservoir, Phoenix Gold Mine, and winter-sport haven Breckenridge. Simply pair your smartphone to the vehicle, sit back, and enjoy the adventure.

Enjoy the flexibility to explore at your own pace
Pay one convenient tour fee for each vehicle
GPS automatically plays narration based on your location
Learn about area attractions without feeling overwhelmed

What's Included

Ensure you have a good mobile or WiFi connection for the initial download
Flexible dates - tour is yours to keep and enjoy anytime on Tripvia Tours mobile app
No signal required or data used during tour
Only 1 tour booking needed per vehicle
No time constraints, take as long as you like to complete the tour

Smartphone or tablet
Transportation (use your own vehicle)
Attraction tickets
**Recommended attractions may be closed/inaccessible due to season or reasons beyond our control.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting points

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Start time

Opening hours

8/14/2020 - 5/16/2025
Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

End point

Denver, CO, USA
One of the tour's start / stop points. Tour experience is the same in any direction.

What To Expect

Colorado Railroad Museum (Pass By)

Arapaho National Forest (Pass By)

ResortQuest Ski and Sport Keystone (Pass By)

Golden (Pass By)

Mines Museum of Earth Science (Pass By)

North Table Mountain Park (Pass By)

Genesee Park (Pass By)

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (Pass By)

Phoenix Gold Mine (Pass By)

Idaho Springs (Pass By)

Mount Blue Sky (Pass By)

Berthoud (Pass By)

Georgetown (Pass By)

Dillon Reservoir (Pass By)

Loveland Pass (Pass By)

White River National Forest (Pass By)

Frisco (Pass By)

Breckenridge (Pass By)

Walking Mountains Science Center (Pass By)

Vail Pass Path (Pass By)

Copper Mountain (Pass By)

Booth Falls Trail (Pass By)

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens (Pass By)

Gondola One (Pass By)

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Service animals allowed
Stroller accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible

Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
Wheelchair accessible
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

3.0

32 reviews

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It's an ok app

viator, Aug 2023

Idk. First the good. The content was fine. Good facts. It could have had a more deep dive. The app picked up location via GPS. The bad. The integration with good maps was poor. It calculate the destination poorly. Also, when in towns it was too generic. It also didn't integrate with music.. So it was long pause between stops.

Response from Host, Aug 2023

Thanks for your review. We are always looking to improve our tours and will take your points into consideration.

It needs a lot of work

Olivia_M, Jun 2023

Hard to enjoy while you’re driving on the freeway. I was hoping for a path along a highway while listening to the tour guide. The guide took too long to give information, I kept thinking I was off line. We did a lot of driving with very little information. I felt like I wasted my day. Sorry but this is the first time I scored a POOR review.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Dear Olivia, We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. We understand that the tour didn't fully meet your expectations, and we're eager to ensure this doesn't happen again. I wonder if there might have been an intermittent GPS signal on your device. Our tours are specifically timed to coincide with typical interstate driving speeds. Depending on your destination, there are roughly 30 points of interest, each with 2 to 3 minutes of commentary. This should provide at least 60 minutes of audio content for the 75-minute journey. However, factors beyond our control, like construction work or heavy traffic, can lead to extended gaps between the audio sections. These delays are due to the GPS and geofencing technology we use to trigger the audio. The comment about the tour taking up your whole day is somewhat puzzling, as it's designed for a 75-minute drive. Nonetheless, your feedback is invaluable to us, and we will investigate this matter further to ensure our service is operating as it should be. Once again, we sincerely appreciate your feedback and apologize for any inconvenience you've experienced.

Not needed

Ravinder_J, Jun 2023

Didn't like it much. I felt like it's just a commentary about the places on way from Denver to Vail, with less details on what can one expect. Even details about places along the way didn't made me to feel to visit those places

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Dear Ravind, Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We are sorry to hear that your experience with our tour did not fully meet your expectations. Our tours are designed with the intention to narrate the fascinating history, sights, and stories about the places you are passing by, rather than focusing on the final destination or providing a travel guide about what to expect when you arrive. We aim to enhance the journey itself by sharing details and trivia about the regions you are traversing. We understand from your review that you would have preferred more compelling details about the places along the way, to inspire a desire to visit them. We take such feedback seriously as we continuously strive to improve our service and make the journey as engaging and informative as possible for our users. Thank you once again for sharing your thoughts. We value your input, and we will consider your comments in future updates to make our tours more enriching and enjoyable for our users.

Not good!!

Steve_T, Oct 2022

Total waste of time. Save your money Maybe they will update and it will be better, but this tour was worthless

Response from Host, Oct 2022

Hi Steve, thanks for taking the time to both email us and leave a review. You mentioned you were expecting a much more historical tour in your email.. we will take that into consideration for future updates and make sure we never, ever, EVER mention that the Lumineers are from Colorado.

Needs more content work

MaryBeth_W, Aug 2022

Wish there was more history and interesting fun facts. The quizzes were not interesting. I have done other audio trips that were more informative. Keep trying though it’s a great idea!

Response from Host, Aug 2022

Thanks for your comments. We are limited in the amount of information we can put into a single point of interest due to a number of factors including distance between points and a wide of cross-section of customers with different interests.

Great idea but not helpful tour information

Lisa_M, Jun 2022

We were disappointed in the tour. We knew the route we were driving so directions were not helpful. We hoped the audio would give us more information & insight on the area including more points of interest, hikes and site seeing stops to make. There we’re too many stories included that were not beneficial information for our visit.

Response from Host, Jul 2022

Thanks for the review Lisa. We added the directions in as some users said they DIDN'T know where to go and needed directions. Sometimes you just can't win! We'll keep those suggestions in mind for future versions.

Denver/Vail driving tour

Susan_C, Apr 2022

Really enjoyed the tour. My only complaint would be that things were mentioned once, so if we didnt catch all the details we missed out - for example, there was a more scenic route we could have taken but we missed the exit number when it was said, so we missed it.

Not ready for prime time

JOSEPH_N, Mar 2022

The information imparted was interesting but there was a lot of chirpy fluff and the app dropped partway through and would not accept the coupon code when we tried to restart.

Response from Host, Mar 2022

Thanks for the revie, your feedback will help us as we revise the tour in the future and create new ones.There's an option to 'restore purchase' which you can use to get the tour back going if it was accidentally closed.

Driving Tour in our own Car

Kelli_R, Dec 2021

We found this driving app on Viator while on a trip in Denver. We wanted to know a little about the area while driving through and this fit the bill.

Response from Host, Dec 2021

Thanks for the review, we're glad you enjoyed it!