USA Small Group Wildlife Tour - A Western American Nature and History Experience

Day 1: Arrival in Salt Lake City
The group will meet up in Salt Lake City. We will visit the gorgeous Mormon Temple grounds before we get to know each other at dinner. Everyone receives detailed itinerary information.

Mormon Temple

Tabernacle Choir

Day 2: Salt Lake City – Capitol – Botanical Gardens – Antelope Island
Visit Utah’s grandiose capitol building, then explore Red Butte Botanical Gardens, where rare birds, rabbits, lizards and other animals reside. Afternoon hiking and picnicking at Antelope Island State Park, habitat for much North American wildlife including Pronghorn Antelopes and bison. Optional swim in Salt Lake.

Utah State Capitol

Antelope Island

Large Lizard

Day 3: Salt Lake City – 2002 Olympic Park – Fossil Butte National Monument – Kemmerer
Visit to 2002 Winter Olympics Park, with Alf Engen Ski Museum, and possibly watch training for ski jumping. Next, see rare fossils of fish, leaves, turtles and more amid wildlife at Fossil Butte National Monument. Stay in remote Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Winter Olympics 2

Fish Fossils

Fossil Butte Antelope

Day 4: Kemmerer, Wyoming – Soda Springs – Blackfoot Reservoir - Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge – Alpine
Visit Soda Springs with the highest geyser in America, look at tracks remaining from Oregon Trail pioneers. Afternoon at Blackfoot Reservoir, home to a large White Pelican colony, and depending on the season, Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge, habitat of rare greater Sandhill Cranes and Trumpeter Swans. Night in the small community of Alpine by the Snake River.

Kemmerer
Rock Shop
 

Soda Springs
Geyser
 

Sandhill Cranes at
Grays Lake N.W.R.
 

Day 5: Jackson, Wyoming – Snake River – Grand Teton National Park – Yellowstone N.P.
Stroll through Jackson with its art galleries, gift shops, and great restaurants. Optional white water rafting or floating trip on Snake River. Walk along beautiful Jenny Lake at Grand Teton National Park, with leisurely boat ride across Jenny Lake, famous for moose. Drive to Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone. 2 nights in Gardiner or West Yellowstone, Montana.

Grand Teton N.P.

Giant Moose

Old Faithful Geyser

Day 6: Yellowstone National Park – Mammoth Hot Springs
Today, we will watch out and observe wildlife of Yellowstone National Park, where the densest contiguous North American animal populations exist. Explore beautiful travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs, then on to Tower Falls and hike at Lower Falls at Yellowstone Canyon. On the way see bison, elk, deer, antelope, and possibly coyotes, eagles, and with lots of luck a grizzly or black bear, wolves, and more.

Mammoth Hot
Springs

Bison Herd in
Yellowstone N.P.

Yellowstone Wolf