Imagine seeing the vast expanses of Glacier National Park or the Grand Canyon from a different vantage point than everyone else. Instead of hiking the most popular trail, you’re traversing the park by dogsled or pedaling a fat-tire bike across the snow. Instead of driving the same scenic route as other cars, you’re floating or flying above it all in a hot-air balloon or helicopter. Here’s how to make that happen. Travel by Train Photo: Courtesy Rocky Mountaineer) Skip driving and hop aboard a train. This year the company Rocky Mountaineer will introduce a new route on a glass-domed train between Denver and Moab, Utah. The two-night journey will begin near Rocky Montain National Park and overnight at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, before arriving near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks (from $1,250). To see Glacier National Park, book a four-day getaway package (from $1,059) with Amtrak Vacations. You’ll disembark at Montana’s East Glacier Park station, then spend three nights at the historic Glacier Park Lodge, built by the Great Northern Railway. Vacations by Rail offers many trips to national parks, including a six-day rails-to-rim tour (from $1,325) that starts in Chicago and ends at the Grand Canyon, with lodging at the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel and Maswik Lodge.