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 GOLDEN FRONTIER
Listing of United States and Canadian Coach Pilgrimages
All trips include round trip transportation
aboard our privately owned motor coaches. Golden Frontier owns and operates
Motor Coach Industries MC-9 and 102EL3 Renaissance model coaches. All coaches
are air conditioned, feature reclining seats with foot rests, and are rest room
equipped. Our coaches are fully insured and follow a strict maintenance program
assuring you reliable, safe, and comfortable transportation.
Golden Frontier coach trips offer lodging in
recognized first class motels, most, if not all meals, sightseeing, entrance
fees, and tour director or escort to accompany the group pointing out points of
interest.
Request individual trip brochures containing
comprehensive information by destination name for each trip. Each individual
trip brochures describes in detail what is included and what is not included.
Brochures also include application, trip departure and return dates, deposit and final
payment requirements, trip contents or itineraries, seasonal weather
information, cancellation policy, standard pickup information, and additional
detailed information. Trip cancellation insurance is available.
All coach trips offer pick up location in the
St. Louis area, and locations in Central and Southern Illinois. Trips heading
south via I-55 offer southern Missouri pickups. Western bound trips offer
additional pickups in central Missouri and the Kansas City areas. North and
eastern bound trips, offer on certain routes, pickups in central, eastern, and
northern Illinois. Consult individual trip brochures for pick up information.
For additional pickup information, please ask our office.
All Canadian trips require proof of
citizenship. Proof is a copy of your birth certificate and positive photo
identification, such as state issued driver's license, or U.S. Passport.
Citizens other than U.S. may require additional documentation; consult your
consulate general or embassy.
While the information contained herein is deemed correct at time of publication,
please ask our office for a complete brochure with finalized dates and prices. To request individual trip brochures, please
refer to Contact Us
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DOMESTIC COACH
PILGRIMAGE
TRIPS
All land Pilgrimage Trips and
via coach. Departures in the St. Louis and metro Illinois areas.
Some trips have Southern
Illinois, Springfield (IL), Festus, Cape Girardeau, Kansas City, Indianapolis,
Terre Haute, and other Indiana locations, Louisville, Springfield (MO), Memphis
departure points. Please ask our office for your possibility.
SPECIAL NOTE: All prices,
dates, and information are deemed to be correct at time of publishing. Each trip
has a brochure which has the final prices, dates, inclusions, and exclusions.
Photos from file or
courtesy of location.
MICHIGAN
(UPPER PENINSULA).
Seven-day trip by coach to the Great North
Woods, on the shores of Lake Huron. Visit
the Great Cross of the Woods, the largest crucifix in the world! Lake Michigan
and Lake Superior will also be seen, a trip to Mackinac Island,
and Tahquamenon
Falls are
included. The grave of Father Marquette and the
Church of St. Ignace will be visited. Fee includes three meals a day (except two
lunches), transportation, ferry boat, motel, guides.
June trip includes spring lilacs!
June
and Late August,
2007. Priced at $788.00
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
While snow is on the ground in the Midwest,
Southern California is warmer. Sixteen day coach trip includes two nights in Las Vegas.
Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Carlsbad Caverns, Hollywood, San Fernando, four
nights Glendale
(Los Angeles area). Included are California Missions of Father Juniper Serra,
Universal Movie Studios, Burbank, and attend a
television show taping.
Price including motels, meals, shows, entrance
fees. February ,
2008. Priced at $
2,125.00
SAVANNAH,
GEORGIA. Eight
day trip by coach to the southern belle
city of the South. Graced with huge live oak trees, festooned with Spanish moss
and azaleas, this unique city of the old
south on the shores of the Atlantic will be our home for five nights. Tybee
Island lighthouses and forts are included. A live performance at the oldest
theater in the U.S. and a dolphin watching excursion boat sailing are also
included. An excellent value trip--
includes hotels, dinner
meals
except one, all breakfasts, most lunches
and admissions!
October 20-27, 2007
,
February 2008.
Priced at $975.00.
FLORIDA
SUNCOAST. Eight
days by coach to the white sandy beaches of Florida’s
Gulf coast
with overnight stop enroute and six
days/five
nights on St. Pete Beach front motel opens to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico beach. This
beautiful island is connected to the mainland by causeways.
Sunday Mass at
St. John Church on St. Petersburg Beach.
Visits to St. Nicholas Greek Cathedral in Tarpon Springs and the sponge docks.
Spend a day on the Dark
Continent, Busch Gardens in Tampa.
Included is a dinner cruise.
January, 2008 price $975.
WASHINGTON,
D.C. Nine-day tour by bus to our nation’s
capitol,
with overnight stop en route. We will visit the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holyland. Our motel will be located
in historic Arlington/Alexandria, Virginia. Included in the trip will be tours of
U.S. Capitol, Smithsonian Institute,
Arlington National Cemetery, Washington,
WWII and Lincoln Memorials, and the home
of George Washington in Mt. Vernon. Price includes three meals daily except one
lunch, transportation, motels, entrance fees, and escort.
October 29, 2007- November 6,
2007 priced
at $984.00.
ONTARIO,
CANADA. Eight-day
motor coach trip to shrines of Ontario including Sainte Marie-among-the-Hurons,
the American Martyrs Shrine at Midland, Ontario. We will visit scenic places:
Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Fort George. Also included are
views of
two
of the five Great Lakes and a boat trip
on the Niagara River in Canada. Included
in the price is transportation, all meals (except
two lunches),
motels, entrance fees, escort and guide throughout the trip.
September 21-28,2007, priced at
$998.00
HOT SPRINGS,
ARKANSAS. Six day trip with the Arlington
Hotel located in the heart of Hot Springs, Arkansas and nestled in the scenic
Ouachita Mountains for 6 nights while visiting Hot Springs National Park, Garven
Gardens, Bathhouse Row, Gulpha Gorge, Benedictine Abbey at Subiaco, winery tour,
and evening show. Drive Scenic Highway 7 and see outstanding fall colors in the
Arkansas Ouachita and Ozark Mountains! Also available day visit to Little Rock
including Clinton Presidential Library. Includes
meals, hotels, transportation.
September
30-October5, 2007.
$743.00. NPS Photo
BOSTON AND
UPPER NEW YORK STATE. An eleven day coach
trip with two nights en route to Upper New
York State where we visit the Shrine of St. Isaac Jogues near Albany and on to
New England and Boston. We will spend six nights in the Boston area where we
will visit Cape Ann, Salem, Plymouth Rock, Boston Freedom Trail, Lexington and
Concord. Return trip via Pennsylvania
Pocono and Allegheny Mountains.
September, 2007,
priced at $
1,392
SAN ANTONIO.
Eight
days by coach to San Antonio,
Texas.
Trip includes San Fernando Cathedral, San Jose Mission,
Buckhorn Museum, the
Alamo, River Walk, LBJ Ranch, Pacific Way
Museum, and Fredericksburg.
Our downtown hotel is centrally located at the
Spanish Market and just blocks from San Antonio Riverwalk, San Fernando
Cathedral and Spanish Governor’s Palace. October,
2007
Priced at $988.
YELLOWSTONE &
THE GREAT NORTHWEST, OREGON. Seventeen-day
coach trip through the beauty of America’s western mountain scenery. This tour
follows the footsteps of the great pioneer missionary, Father Peter DeSmet to
Yellowstone National Park. Additionally four other national parks and monuments
are featured in this eight-state trip. Three days will be spent at Yellowstone
and Grand Tetons,
Included are Thermopolis, Columbia River
Gorge, Jackson Hole,
Mount St. Helens, Portland and the Shrine of the
Sorrowful Mother.
July 17 to August 1,
2007. Priced at $1,965.
EUREKA
SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. Three day trip during
early fall
through the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks. We
overnight two nights at historic Eureka Springs. While there we will attend a
production of the Great Passion Play, a portrayal of the last week of Christ’s
life on earth, the Ascension, and Resurrection. Mass will be offered in St.
Elizabeth Church, where we enter through the bell tower and walk down to enter
the church. Additionally we visit
Thorncrown Chapel, and Statue of Christ of
the Ozarks. September,
2007. Priced at $398.
BARDSTOWN,
KENTUCKY.
Four day coach trip during the summer to the
quaint Kentucky town which was the center of the western territories. Visit My
Old Kentucky Home and St. Joseph Cathedral, first cathedral of the Midwest
housing famous paintings bestowed by the King of France. Attend an evening
presentation of the Stephen Foster drama, a musical theater under the stars.
Additionally, see one of the largest Benedictine monasteries in the world, St.
Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana and visit the Jim Beam Distillery tour.
August 7-10, 2007.
Priced at $398.
LAKE
LOUISE/BANFF, ALBERTA AND CANADIAN ROCKIES.
Fifteen day coach tour to Lake Louise-Banff National Park in Alberta,
Canada with stops at Calgary, Regina,
Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes
National Park, Kalispell,
Rapid City and Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
Includes St. Ignace Mission, Montana.
June,
2007. Priced at $1,988.
QUEBEC, CAP
DEL LA MADELEINE & MONTREAL. Twelve-day
trip by coach including Niagara Falls and the Chute Montmorency, Basilique
Sainte-Ann-de-Beaupre, Fortifications of Quebec and the Plains of Abraham,
Place-Royale, the cradle of French civilization in North America, the Basilique
Notre Dame de Montreal, and St. Joseph Oratory, three
nights in Quebec, three nights in Montreal, two nights in Niagara Falls,
includes meals, hotels, transportation, cruise on the St. Lawrence River,
escorts. July1-12,
2007. Priced at $1,448.00
SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS AND KENTUCKY. Three
day coach -trip to Kentucky and Southern
Illinois. Accommodations at San Damiano on the bluffs overlooking the Ohio
River. Visit Cave-In Rock, Illinois Garden of the Gods, Illinois Iron Furnace.
Visit the Quilt Museum and Metropolis, and Whitehaven Mansion in Paducah, KY.
April, 2008.
Priced at $258.
