Yellowstone tours from Jackson hole

Your wildlife safari of Yellowstone National Park begins from your Jackson or Teton Village hotel or lodging, where you’ll head towards the park in the early morning for the best chance of encountering wildlife.

The full-day program begins by passing through Grand Teton National Park, stopping to view wildlife along the way. This tour of the Yellowstone National Park is the perfect way to observe wildlife as well as take in Yellowstone’s numerous geyser basins.

You’ll continue on to Yellowstone National Park, making stops at Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake, the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Hayden Valley, and several geyser basins. Enjoy commentary on Yellowstone National Park’s history, geology, wildfires, and wildlife throughout the tour.

The tour includes a picnic-style lunch that will be served by your guide. The 1 day tour duration of the total program is approximately 12 hours.

You’ll experience personal attention from a professional naturalist guide as this is a small-tour group tour with a range of 2-11 participants. Customers can also take part in small, easy walks along numerous pathways and boardwalks throughout the day while observing the park and wildlife.

Yellowstone National Park

The park’s tall mountains, dense forests, blue lakes and incredible wildlife are all great reasons to visit Yellowstone National Park. 

On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone became the first national park for all to enjoy the unique hydrothermal and geologic features. We’ll be exploring the Lower Loop of Yellowstone National Park on your tour! You will get to experience a little of everything that makes Yellowstone National Park so famous: wildlife, geysers (including Old Faithful), waterfalls, and unforgettable scenery. Opportunities to observe wildlife in an intact ecosystem, explore geothermal areas that contain about half the world’s active geysers, and view geologic wonders like the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.

Old Faithful

The most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful geyser was named for its frequent and somewhat predictable eruptions, which number more than a million since Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872.

Guests will be able to watch Old Faithful erupt from the nearby wooden boardwalk and check major bucket list item off their list! 1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

 Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Great Loop Road at Canyon Village, 45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Yellowstone Lake (Pass By) Yellowstone Lake, Grand Loop Road Between Fishing Bridge and Grant Village

Lower Yellowstone River Falls Lower Falls, the biggest waterfall in Yellowstone at 308-feet tall, is the most famous waterfall in the park. The canyon’s colors were created by hot water acting on volcanic rock. It was not these colors, but the river’s yellow banks at its distant confluence with the Missouri River, that occasioned the Minnetaree Indian name which French trappers translated as roche jaune, yellow stone. The canyon has been rapidly downcut more than once, perhaps by great glacial outburst floods. 45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included 

Fountain Paint Pot The Fountain Paint Pots is an amazing stop in Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Loop. They are mud pots located in Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. The Fountain Paint Pots are named for the rich reds, and vivid yellows and browns of the mud in this area. The differing colors are derived from oxidation states of the iron in the mud. 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included 

Hayden Valley is a must stop wildlife paradise and the location of the largest herd of free roaming bison in the world. We’ll be watching for bears, wolves, bison, elk, mule deer, coyotes, fox, eagles, pronghorn and other critters while driving through this beautiful area! 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included 

West Thumb Geyser Basin We’ll walk along the boardwalk and discover the many beautiful hydrothermal pools located in this basin area that is an extension of the Yellowstone Lake area. 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Oxbow Bend is one of the most photographed spots in Grand Teton National Park. Mount Moran, in the Grand Teton mountain range, is set in the background and the Snake River winds into a beautiful oxbow in the foreground. Mirror reflections of Mount Moran are sometimes possible when we arrive to this spot on non-windy mornings! 20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Jackson Lake (Pass By) Jackson Lake is in Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. This natural lake was enlarged by the construction of the Jackson Lake Dam, which was originally built in 1911, enlarged in 1916 and rebuilt by 1989