USA Small Group Wildlife Tour - A Western American Wildlife 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 a group 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 at Antelope Island State Park, habitat for much North American wildlife. Optional swim in Salt Lake, and watch sunset.

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.

Winter Olympics 2

Fish Fossils

Fossil Butte Antelope

Day 4: Kemmerer, Wyoming – Soda Springs – Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge – Alpine
See Wild West town Kemmerer. Optional fish-fossil hunting excursion for prehistoric treasures (small fee). Visit Soda Springs with the highest geyser in America, look at tracks remaining from Oregon Trail pioneers. Afternoon at Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Night in Alpine by Palisades Reservoir.

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.
Walk downtown Jackson with its art galleries, gift shops, and great restaurants. Optional white water rafting trip on Snake River. Next Grand Teton National Park, with leisurely boat ride across Jenny Lake, famous for moose. Return hike and drive to Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone. 3 nights in West Yellowstone.

Grand Teton N.P.

Giant Moose

Old Faithful Geyser

Day 6: Yellowstone National Park – Mammoth Hot Springs
Today we dedicate to the wildlife of Yellowstone National Park, where the densest contiguous North American animal populations exist. Hike at Mammoth Hot Springs, and on the way see buffalo, elk, deer, antelope, coyotes, and possibly eagles, grizzly or black bears, wolves, and more.

Mammoth Hot
Springs

Buffalo Herd in
Yellowstone N.P.

Yellowstone Wolf