Wonderland: Yellowstone in Winter
Visit Grand Teton, Yellowstone
Available as a Self Drive or Escorted Tour holiday
8 nights from £4,090 per person.
ID: TCL-4-184
Description
The world’s first national park inspires awe any time of the year, as any Yellowstone tour would attest. But as you’ll discover on this very special 9-day Culturious trip, visiting the national park during the winter – when bison, elk, wolves and bighorn sheep wander across snow-covered valleys, and Yellowstone's amazing geologic features are even more spectacular in the frigid air – is a whole other... and perhaps other-worldly... experience. Exploring by snowcoach, you'll see gurgling mud pots and steaming hot springs surrounded by frozen landscapes... waterfalls whose cataracts partially freeze into ice bridges... and geysers, like iconic Old Faithful, erupting dramatically into the cold winter air. And you'll meet an award-winning wildlife cinematographer who offers insights into the lives of the park’s iconic species. When Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns started thinking of new trips on which to share their unique stories and experiences, a wintertime Yellowstone tour was a natural choice – and Culturious was a natural fit. In Dayton’s words: “You’ve never really seen Yellowstone until you’ve been there in winter. Once a snowcoach takes you into the interior (the roads are snow-covered), you have this incredible place pretty much to yourself." Small groups, active travel, immersive – it’s Wonderland: Yellowstone in Winter... and it's Culturious.
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Package Summary
- Exclusive to Tauck! Filmed vignettes by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan sharing their own personal stories and telling the stories of those who shaped the creation & preservation of America’s first national park, Yellowstone
- Travel by snowcoaches to the remote parts of Yellowstone, “coaches on skis” that are specially designed to glide over the snow – a mode of transportation that dates back to the 1930s
- See the greatest collection of geysers, fumaroles, mud pots and boiling springs in the world at their most spectacular, when these thermal features that make the park unique are more prominent
- Special presentation by Bob Landis, award-winning Yellowstone wildlife cinematographer, who gives insights into the lives of the park’s iconic species including the bear, wolf and bison; his films have aired on PBS and National Geographic Television
- Attend a special farewell cocktail reception and dinner in Jackson at The National Museum of Wildlife Art, whose galleries house paintings, drawings and sculpture celebrating Western wildlife
- Travel by sleigh into the National Elk Refuge
- Winter activities in Yellowstone (some at additional cost) – hiking by snowshoe, ice skating, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling
Summary Itinerary
- Day 1 – Montana’s Chico Hot Springs
- Day 2 – Into the Wonderland of Yellowstone
- Day 3 – Lamar Valley and the Wolf Packs
- Day 4 – Geysers, Fumaroles, and Paint Pots
- Day 5 – Inside and Outside Yellowstone
- Day 6 – Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
- Day 7 – The Tetons & the National Elk Refuge
- Day 8 – Snowshoe Trek in Jackson Hole
- Day 9 – Farewell to Yellowstone’s winter wonderland
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