Two Day Yellowstone National Park Tour

Explore Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Loop

This private tour lets you see Yellowstone’s significant wildlife, geothermal, and cultural sites in approximately 36 hours. Day one covers Yellowstone’s Lower Loop and features several short hikes to the Mud Volcano, Haden Valley, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Obsidian Cliffs, and Mammoth Hot Springs. We will stay overnight at the historic Chico Hot Springs Resort, subject to availability, located in Paradise Valley, Montana. If Chico Hot Springs lodging is unavailable at booking, we will arrange comparable accommodations elsewhere.

Day two covers Yellowstone’s Upper Loop and includes visits to the Albright Visitor Center, Tower Falls, Lamar Valley, Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, the largest hot spring globally, and an obligatory stop at the world-famous Old Faithful Geyser before returning to Jackson, Wyoming. Wildlife encountered may include black and grizzly bears, bison, bighorn sheep, eagles, osprey, wolves, pronghorn, and coyotes.

Itinerary

DAY ONE: YELLOWSTONE LOWER LOOP: 12-13 hours – Lower Loop

Discover Yellowstone National Park’s stark beauty, incredible geology, and abundant wildlife during this 2-day, 1-night, 400-mile tour that follows Yellowstone’s Grand Loop, a figure-8 shaped road designed initially for horse-drawn wagons and built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1883.

DAY TWO: YELLOWSTONE UPPER LOOP: 12-13 hours – Upper Loop

After departing Chico Hot Springs Resort at 7 AM, we will enter the Park through the North Entrance at Gardiner, MT, and the famed Roosevelt Arch designed by Robert Reamer, the architect who designed Old Faithful Inn.

Driving south from the North Entrance, we will watch for bighorn sheep vaulting along the cliffs before making a short stop at the Albright Visitor Center. We will continue driving east to explore Tower Falls, the Lamar Valley, and the so-called American Serengeti.

From Lamar Valley, we will continue south to Canyon Village, then to Madison Junction for a lunch break, before taking a short walkabout to explore Grand Excelsior Geyser Crater, Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, and eventually Old Faithful herself. (It’s common to address geysers in the feminine tense, like a ship). The return drive to Jackson from Old Faithful is approximately 2.5-3 hours.