Best Friends is the perfect place to visit: help the animals, explore the natural wonders of the southwest, and find peace within oneself.

Planning Your Visit

Information on how to get to Best Friends, where to stay, and more.

Angel Canyon, home of Best Friends, has been a place of peace and healing for thousands of years, dating back to when the ancestral Pueblo people gathered here to seek spiritual guidance. Today, visitors from all over the world still find sanctuary here among the beauty, graceful harmony, and peaceful atmosphere of Angel Canyon.

Best Friends is also in the heart of the Golden Circle of national parks of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Lake Powell.

Visitor F.A.Q.s -- everything you need to know about planning your visit to Best Friends (booking tours,  volunteering, directions, places to stay).

Have you visited or are you planning to visit Best Friends? Chat with other visitors, arrange carpools, ask questions of seasoned visitors or keep in touch: Best Friends Visitors--Unite!


Check out our video library for a preview tour of the sanctuary!

For information on visiting the many national parks within 90 minutes' drive from Kanab, Utah (where Best Friends is located), visit the Kanab Webring or contact the Kane County Travel Center at (800) 733-5263.