Wonderland: Yellowstone in Winter 9 Days / 8 Nights from $3,490 plus airfare
Bozeman Chico Hot Springs
Mammoth Hot Springs
Norris Geyser Basin
Wyoming Montana
Lamar Valley
Hayden Valley
Old Faithful
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Yellowstone Lake
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Jackson Lake
Snake River
Idaho Wyoming Cooke City = Snowcoach Tauck Montana
Maximum Elevation: 8,240 ft.
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
National Elk Refuge
Jackson
1. MONTANA’S CHICO HOT SPRINGS Tour begins: Chico Hot Springs Hotel, 6:30 PM. A transfer is included from Bozeman Airport to the Chico Hot Springs Resort and Day Spa in the foothills of the Absaroka Mountains, not far from Yellowstone’s north entrance. Your historic lodge, established in 1900, includes a Western saloon, two mineral hot pools, and a full-service spa. Join us this evening for a welcome reception and dinner. Meals D
2. YELLOWSTONE’S WONDERLAND Take a morning dip in one of the resort’s open-air swimming pools, heated by underground hot springs. The waters have healing powers, if you believe the legends of gold miners and Native Americans... Meet a professional dog sledder (a useful skill this time of year), and get the lowdown on the world of dogsled racing. Then head out along the Yellowstone River, teeming with ice floes, to the park’s north entrance. The frozen world beyond the fieldstone gate can literally take your breath away. Empty of crowds, silent, eerily peaceful and pristine in shades of white... crystalline conifers, soaring white mountains, and frozen waterfalls. The temperatures in
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Yellowstone has a crucial place in history, and some of the park’s more
interesting stories took place outside of the normal seasons. Fascinated as Ken Burns and I are with Yellowstone’s historical stories, even we have to admit what the main attraction is... you’ve never really seen Yellowstone until you’ve been there in winter.
trip co-creator and collaborator with Ken Burns on The National Parks: America’s Best Idea –
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winter can reach 40 below (the number at which Fahrenheit and Celsius meet), yet the ground steams through hidden fissures and hot springs, wafting great clouds across the white landscape, where distant herds of bison and elk drift through it like apparitions in a fog. Look for shadows of elk in the restless fog and keep your camera poised for photo ops... hot springs in this place are wildlife magnets. A presentation tonight by Bob Landis, renowned Yellowstone wildlife cinematographer, gives great insight into their behaviors and lifestyles. Find your own warm place (and a hot drink beside a crackling fire) at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel for the next two nights. Meals BLD
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3. LAMAR VALLEY AND THE WOLF PACKS Witness great herds traversing the white plains of Lamar Valley in the early morning light. Winter drives the grazing animals, like elk, bison, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn, down from the mountains to lower elevations where the snow and ice are thin. The herds draw packs of grey wolves (reintroduced to the park in 1995) and the predators in turn draw hopeful scavengers like coyotes and bald eagles. Wolves, usually invisible in the summer months, are easy to spot in the barren winter landscape of the valley. Find your own sustenance in the civilized warmth of Cooke City, once a mining camp in the foothills beside the Snake River. An early winter sunset paints the sky and
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