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A Winter Wonderland Awaits You
Overview
Exploring Yellowstone National Park and the Lamar Valley (aka the American Serengeti) during winter with a professional guide is a truly magical experience. Yellowstone’s Northern Range is home to free-ranging herds of wintering elk, bison, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, and an array of steaming hot springs, frozen waterfalls, towering mountain peaks, and snowy landscapes.
This tour is designed to help you experience Yellowstone’s most iconic wildlife, scenic places, and cultural attractions from the comfort and safety of one of our four-wheel-drive Chevy Suburbans or high-roofed Ford Transit Vans.
Your fun, knowledgeable, and safe guides will reconstruct the Park’s human history, dating from prehistoric life 12,000 years ago to the arrival of legendary fur trappers, mountain men, explorers, pioneers, and artists. Your guide will also interpret the wide range of conservation and stewardship initiatives designed to protect the World’s First National Park’s unique flora, fauna, and cultural resources for future generations. Your guide is certified and well-trained in preventing cold-related injuries, navigating in winter, and avoiding avalanche terrain.
The tour includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, bottled water, and hot beverages. Let us know if you have special dietary requirements.
Tour Itinerary
The Northern Range is also one of the best places in North America to see packs of gray wolves.
During your half-day winter safari, your guide will highlight the complexities of wolf behavior, their specialized hunting strategies, how the return of Yellowstone?s wolves has impacted the region, and teach you how to track, spot, and photograph wolves from a safe distance.
As you travel through the park, your guide will also discuss how ancient tribes of Native Americans, mountain men, pioneers, artists, the military, and Presidents influenced the establishment of the World First National Park. And you will learn how ancient oceans, earthquakes, volcanoes, fires, and glaciers have sculpted the ecosystem.
Wildlife you could see include beavers, bighorn sheep, bison, coyotes, eagles, elk, redtail foxes, moose, mountain goats, mule deer, owls, trumpeter swans, and wolves.
Additional Notes
- Tour Length: 6-8 hours
- Start Time: 7:00 AM or 7:30 AM (start times adjusted seasonally)
- Price: $1,295 (for up to 4 people). $125 for each additional person
- Size: Maximum of 8 people per vehicle. Call to discuss options for larger groups
What’s Included
- Pick up at your hotel, Airbnb or VRBO
- Professional, CPR & First Aid certified road-based tour guide
- All-day tour of Yellowstone National Park
- Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and non-alcoholic beverages
- Use of our professional Vortex? spotting scopes and binoculars to see wildlife
- Transportation in a spacious Chevy Suburban SUV or Ford Transit Van
Exclusions
- National Park entry fee (Click
- Optional guide gratuity (15% recommended)
Weather
Winter temperatures in the can range from zero to 20