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YELLOWSTONE WINTER WONDERLAND - 2010

7 days from Jackson to Jackson (AW)

Vacation Overview

The only thing more impressive than Yellowstone in the summertime is Yellowstone in winter! Begin this spectacular escorted tour with a sleigh ride through the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, where as many as 10,000 elk congregate each winter—prime territory for wolves, eagles, and coyotes! Next, tour beautiful Grand Teton National Park before boarding a Bombardier Snocoach and entering Yellowstone National Park. Enjoy a guided walking tour of Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin, the greatest geothermal basin on earth and home to Old Faithful. Continue via Snocoach to Mammoth Hot Springs, stopping along the way to see the famed Fountain Paint Pots and Gibbons Falls. View the thundering Upper and Lower Falls, which are nearly twice the height of Niagara, and keep your camera ready for bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, coyote, and gray wolves. Journey to Lamar Valley, known to the locals as the Serengeti of Yellowstone because of the wildlife that can be spotted here. Head to West Yellowstone, Montana, then motor through the western flanks of the Teton Range with views of the highest peak in the range—Grand Teton itself! Return to Jackson for free time and an overnight, the perfect end to a grand Yellowstone winter vacation!

Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • The Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains
  • View of the amazing Teton Mountains
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • A beautiful paint pot, named for their vibrant colors, in Yellowstone National Park
  • A vibrant paint pot in Yellowstone National Park
  • Elk roam freely through Yellowstone National Park
  • Journey to breathtaking Grand Teton National Park
  A Vacation Story  Yellowstone: Into the Wild Victorian Yonder

Today, Yellowstone is virtually a country unto itself. It has its own weekly newspaper, a vast staff, a $30 million annual budget, army-sized campgrounds and visitor complexes as busy as miniature cities. But even with this infrastructure, much of the landscape has not changed since the Victorian era, when only 300 or so lucky travelers would arrive on horseback each summer, following rough animal trails. The first hotel arrived in 1871, McCartney’s Cabin at Mammoth Hot Springs, a makeshift log structure where guests had to sleep on the floor. Most preferred instead to camp in the forest, catching fish for their dinner in the pristine lakes.

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