WONDERLAND: YELLOWSTONE IN WINTER


“You’ve never really seen Yellowstone until you’ve been there in winter” – Dayton Duncan, co-creator and collaborator with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”


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Silence and Solitude Immersive and isolated. You pretty much have Yellowstone National Park to yourself in the months of winter... well, you and a multitude of four-legged and winged residents who call it home. No matter how many times you’ve visited America’s first national park, seeing Yellowstone in winter – when the park is covered in snow, visitors are few, and nature puts on a truly unique show – is a completely unforgettable experience. Exhilaration. That’s the best description for how you’ll feel at the end of a day spent exploring the vast reaches of the park, where an amazing geothermal wonderland performs just for you. Inspirational. A word you’ll use to describe the wildlife who let you in on their wintertime lifestyle. Energized. Just because.


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1. MONTANA’S CHICO HOT SPRINGS Tour begins: Chico Hot Springs Resort, 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 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. Empty of crowds, silent, eerily peaceful and pristine in shades of white... crystalline conifers, soaring white mountains, and frozen waterfalls. The temperatures in 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


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