Best of Yellowstone

Each season provides a different experience in Yellowstone National Park.  Summer days are warm and long and many different kinds of animals can be seen on the move, tending their young or foraging for food.  Grizzly bears might be the main summer attraction, but plenty of other wildlife can be seen and observed.  Winter, in contrast, is the season of the wolf.  While grizzly bears hibernate and other wildlife migrate to lower elevations or warmer climates, the wolf has adapted to thrive in the harsh winter conditions of Yellowstone and is much more visible on the landscape than in the summer months.  There’s no best time to visit the park, but if you know where to look, you’ll be rewarded with an amazing experience in any season.  Our Best of Yellowstone Tour is a summer tour, designed to show off the highlights of Yellowstone National Park.

In a place like Yellowstone National Park, it’s hard to snap a bad photo. With dramatic alpine landscapes and colorful geological wonders, you’ll have plenty of opportunities for a frame worthy photo. Our Best of Yellowstone Tour offers great opportunities to photograph the landscape and the geology that is unique to Yellowstone National Park. Be sure to let your guide know that photography is a goal for the day, so they can be on the lookout for photo opportunities. If wildlife photography is more your style, the Yellowstone Wildlife Safari offers personalized attention to wildlife throughout the Park. We will always be sure to keep our distance from wildlife, so be sure to pack your favorite equipment. Let your guide know in advance if you would like to capture a certain area or species in particular and they can be on the lookout for photo opportunities for you. For the best opportunities to photograph both wildlife and landscapes, we recommend booking the tours back to back – booking a Yellowstone Wildlife Safari first, then a Best of Yellowstone Tour for the next day, so that you can make the most of your time in the area.

The Best of Yellowstone tour is designed to show you the highlights of Yellowstone National Park.  We will spend time at most of the major sites, such as Old Faithful Geyser, Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone Lake, the Lower and Upper Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and other lesser known wonders.  This tour will focus the time mostly along the Lower Loop of Yellowstone, while the Yellowstone Wildlife Safari will be traveling the Upper Loop and the Northern Range in search of wildlife.  Yellowstone is a large place, covering over 2 million acres in size.  It is impossible to see it all in a day, a week, or even a month.  To get the most out of your visit, book a Best of Yellowstone for one day, followed by a Yellowstone Wildlife Safari for the next day.  You’ll get to cover the best parts of the National Park and see more than you would on your own.  We recommend booking your tours for the beginning of your vacation.  You’ll learn a lot about the area on each tour, and you’ll be able to apply that knowledge as you continue your travels in the area.

5 Stars
I can’t recommend this group enough. Our guide was informative and entertaining. We saw a lot of wildlife and beautiful scenery. Best of all he was able to keep a six year and a two year old interested and engaged for hours. The company was well organized and easy to work with.
Allison V.

5 Stars
Hands down kudos to our tour guide!! Bless his heart, he was so knowledgeable of the park and knew where all the wildlife hung around. He was so helpful with our children, helping them with his scopes to get a closer look at the animals. He drove through an early spring snow to see the higher elevation at old faithful. Also, provided us with tips on the bears, which we used in Glacier as well. Offered to take family pictures for us too, which was a huge plus! He made the trip very fun, we were happy with our experience and he is such a great guy! We highly recommend this tour for a pleasant trip to Yellowstone!
Mandy M.

5 Stars
Our tour was in depth, our guide is very knowledgeable, history, park, places for best photo ops. Food and drink were tasty, we observed many buffalo, cougar, long horn sheep, hot springs… No wolves, many deer, elk, eagle, and more… Well worth your time and money, provided us very fine memories of our Montana trip. Thank God for Teddy Roosevelt; without his foresight the country would be deprived of our geographical monuments.
Steven D.

Yellowstone is an enormous National Park. There are over 300 miles of roads within the Park and 1000 miles of trails to explore. The main highlights can easily be found and explored via a Park map, however the deeper interpretation of the vast and complex ecosystem that is the Park, its wildlife, its volcano and its history can best be told by an experienced guide.

We recommend spending at least 1 or 2 days with a Yellowstone Safari Co guide to explore Yellowstone. We like to recommend one day in Yellowstone’s Northern Range viewing wildlife and wilderness, and one day in the Southern half of the Park exploring its volcanic and thermal features as well as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Lake. After seeing the Park with a guide at the beginning of your trip you will have more than a headstart on where you would like to spend more time on your trip!

If you only have one day to see the Park we recommend our Best of Yellowstone Trip. This tour encompasses all of the highlights of the Park that make it so unique and special. We cover all four thermal feature types; mud pots, fumaroles, geysers and hot springs, wildlife and bird sightings all day long, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with its massive waterfalls, and Yellowstone Lake, the largest alpine lake in the lower 48 states. You will get the best overview of the Park on this tour!

These tours will stop in designated meeting locations along this route. Guests on this route will enjoy the following highlights: the historic town of Mammoth, which is Yellowstone’s Headquarters and the site of pre-park service Fort Yellowstone, the Travertine Hillside Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, beautiful Swan Lake Flats, the ethereal Norris Geyser Basin, Grand Prismatic Spring or other Geyser Basins, Old Faithful Geyser erupting, Yellowstone Lake, Hayden Valley, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with two major waterfalls, and countless wildlife potential along the way.

These tours will stop in two designated meeting locations along this route. Guests on this route will enjoy the following highlights: Yellowstone’s Western Gate in the town of West Yellowstone, the gorgeous Madison River Valley, Grand Prismatic Spring or other Geyser Basins, Old Faithful Geyser erupting, Yellowstone Lake, Hayden Valley, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with two major waterfalls, and countless wildlife potential along the way.

These tours will stop at several designated meeting points along the route from Cody to the East Entrance of the park. Guests on this route will enjoy the following highlights: The Shoshone River Canyon through Shoshone National Forest, Sylvan Pass and Yellowstone’s Eastern Gate, Yellowstone Lake and Fishing Bridge, Hayden Valley, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with two major waterfalls, Grand Prismatic Spring or other Geyser Basins, Old Faithful Geyser erupting, and countless wildlife potential along the way.