Beautiful Scenery, Godawful Soundtrack
The Verde Canyon Railroad is a relaxing way to see some unspoiled and otherwise inaccessible areas of Arizona. The scenery is beautiful, and there is nothing like seeing the bald eagles in their natural environment. Although there were a few glitches in their automated narration, our cabin guide was very knowledgeable and humorous, and filled us in with the missing information and then some. I would give this five stars, but the "soundtrack" they play at times was cheesy and did not fit with the atmosphere. One song in particular featuring a female vocalist sounded like it was recorded using a dinky keyboard and a Playskool tape recorder, and used every cheesy cliche imaginable in the lyrics. It really was offensively awful, and I hate that this horror that was forced upon my ears sticks out so vividly and nightmarishly, when all of my other memories of the trip were fabulous.