I did a similar trip four or five years ago in the summer, only we came the opposite direction. We went east from Calgary all the way to Montreal, spent a few days going down the Eastern Seaboard(including 3 nights in New York), went south all the way to New Orleans, then West through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, then North and spent a few nights in Vegas, before finally going West to the Coast and spent some nights in LA and San Fran, before finally taking the PCH highway all the way up through Portland, Seattle and to Vancouver, and then back East to Calgary. Altogether it took 34 days and 15,000km's. Best time of my whole life.
We saw the Hoover Dam, but only in passing(we were going from Phoenix to Vegas and were hung over from a Cards/Packers game the night before, so we just drove through), but it looked like a pretty cool place to take a few hours out of your day and explore. The same buddies did a trip to Vegas a year earlier when they went through Salt Lake City and they didn't have many good things to say about it. Never went through Denver or Albequerque, but I hear Albequerque's very picturesque, and I've always wanted to go to Denver. I'd suggest that over Salt Lake City. I'd love to do that trip again, have fun!
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