3-Day Winter Wolf Safari and Wildlife of Northern Yellowstone

Your 3-Day Winter Wolves and Wildlife Safari of Northern Yellowstone will begin when your guide meets you at your Bozeman area hotel. You will travel east over Bozeman pass to Livingston Montana and South through the scenic Paradise Valley to the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park (Approx 1.5 hours). We will then spend the rest of the morning exploring the Northern most part of Yellowstone National Park including the Roosevelt Arch, Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces and the historic Albright Visitor Center with plenty of time to find and photograph the abundant wildlife of this part of the park. After a quick lunch we will head deeper into Yellowstone to the Lamar Valley, often called the Serengeti of North America. This is the single best winter wildlife viewing area in Yellowstone and one of the best places in the world to see wolves in the wild! Here we will spend the afternoon searching for these apex predators with time to learn about and photograph other wildlife, thermal features and the magnificent scenery in this part of the park. We will return to Gardiner just before sunset to get checked into our hotel (Riverside Cottages or similar) A field breakfast, lunch, dinner and lodging included.. One of the largest parks in the USA, and the oldest national park in the world (it was opened in 1872), Yellowstone owes its fame mostly to its geysers (hot springs erupting columns of steam that can reach heights of up to 50 m) and to other unique geothermal features. The park is inhabited by bears, wolves, bison, moose, deer and cougars. The Grand Loop Road (230 km) is the most panoramic route in the park: it runs across the Mammoth Hot Springs and the Upper Geyser Basin, famous for the Old Faithful geyser, then crosses the Continental Divide to run down towards the Yellowstone Lake and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.,

We will start the day early in order to get positioned for the best opportunities to see, and if we’re lucky, hear the wolves of the Northern Range. The best wolf watching locations will depend on current events, pack dynamics, prey migrations and weather which will lead us to different strategies for finding the wolves on every trip. It is not uncommon to encounter wolves from Mammoth Hot Springs all the way to Lamar Valley. Places like Little America, Slough Creek and the Blacktail Plateau may provide even better opportunities than the Lamar Valley depending on the time of year and current wolf pack territories in the area. We will also have plenty of other wildlife encounters including birds of prey, other canines and the abundant hooved animals that winter on the Northern Range. Winter is an outstanding time to view wildlife for several reasons including the ease of spotting animals on snow covered ground and the need for animals to move to lower elevations to find forage where there is less snow. A field breakfast, lunch, dinner and lodging included.,

Another early morning of wolf watching and wildlife viewing on the Northern Range of Yellowstone. We will spend the better part of the day exploring the park in search of great wildlife encounters and scenery. After lunch in Cooke City we will spend most of our last afternoon in search of wildlife as we begin heading back toward Gardiner. We will return to Bozeman around 5pm and your guide will drop you at the hotel of your choice. A Field breakfast and lunch included. The exact routes and itineraries will depend on a number of factors – the most important being your areas of interest and expectations. One of the great things about our safaris and our guides is that we customize each safari for you. Our guides are all highly experienced with thousands of hours in both Grand Teton and Yellowstone allowing them to make suggestions and calibrate the tour to your experience level and desires. Every day is different for us which makes our safaris more fun for both you and your guide.,