Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks

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Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks From towering mountain ranges, rainbow-colored geysers, and cool verdant forests to vast multi-hued canyons and alpine lakes, this tour to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is a wonder for the senses. Be on the lookout for grizzlies, bison, bighorn sheep, elk, and elusive gray wolves. May is a perfect time to visit, as the summer crowds have not arrived, but the full spectrum of spring wildflowers colors has, in abundance.

Tour Highlights on the lakeshore trail at Colter Bay provides • Grand Teton NP • Jackson Hole Gondola great views of Jackson • Yellowstone NP • National Museum of Wildlife Lake along with a Art • National Elk Refuge collection of Native • Grizzly & Wolf Discovery • Snake River Float Trip American arts and an Center auditorium showing park-related films in the visitor center. (B,L) Day 1 - Tucson to Salt Lake City & Jacskon This morning we fly from Tucson to Salt Lake City, Utah, Day 2 – Grand Teton then travel by motorcoach to Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson National Park is a real mountain town, like no other, offering nostalgic Today we explore adventures into the heart of the American West. It also the eastern loop of has a shopping and eating district with many art galleries, Grand Teton National custom jewelers and designer clothing retailers all Park, whose 310,000 centered on the town square. We check in for a 3-night acres include lush stay at The Lodge at Jackson Hole and have a welcome valley floors, mountain dinner to get acquainted at the Snake River Grill. (D) meadows, alpine lakes, and the rising peaks Day 2 – Grand Teton National Park of the Teton Range. This morning we visit the National Elk Refuge, created in 1912 We get peeks of Mt. to protect the habitat and provide sanctuary for one of the Moran and the northern largest elk herds on Earth. As we continue on our journey section of Grand Teton into Grand Teton National Park, keep an eye out for bison, National Park and stop moose, elk, coyotes, bald eagles, and more, which will be at overlooks providing easy to spot from our raft tour within the park. During our panoramic views of two-hour float, we travel down the smooth Snake River the mountains, the Snake River and Jackson Hole Valley. through a pristine, natural landscape that features both We visit the Craig Thomas Discovery Center, where the forested and open environments. Our local guide will point grand expanse of the Teton Range rises above. Inside out the abundant wildlife as well as the most impressive the center there are interwoven themes of place, people, peaks of the Teton Range. After this scenic float, we view preservation, mountaineering, and Native American Jenny Lake, which covers roughly 1191 acres, was carved by Indians, which encourages visitors to contemplate the glaciers and is the second largest lake in the park. A walk past, present and future of this place. At the end of the

42 | Pleasurebent Tours | 520-325-8839 | 800-584-6831 day, catch the view from the Snake River Overlook, where 7 days, 6 nights we have an uninterrupted view of the best sunset in the Tetons. (B,L) Day 4 – Jackson to Yellowstone Tuesday May 11 - Today we tour the National Museum of Wildlife Art, whose Monday May 17, 2021 Idaho quartzite façade was inspired by the ruins of Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and echoes the serene hillside behind the facility. We venture to Teton Village and Activity Level: 3 Moderate ride the exciting Jackson Hole Aerial Tram to the top of Rendezvous Peak. From the top, take in 360-degree views of Grand Teton and the surrounding mountains. Then Air Motorcoach Float Trip we continue to West Yellowstone, Montana, the western gateway to Yellowstone, America’s first national park. We visit the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center, a wildlife park $2,745 per person $3,393 per person and educational facility offering visitors to Yellowstone Double occupancy Single occupancy a chance to uniquely experience the world of grizzly bears and gray wolves. All the animals at the Center are Deposit: $200 per person Insurance: $187 to $248 per person unable to survive in the wild and serve as ambassadors Includes for their wild counterparts. We see a film on the history of Yellowstone at the Giant Screen IMAX Theatre. Lodging for • Roundtrip air • Admissions & tours as our three-night stay is at the Gray Wolf Inn & Suites, and transportation from described Tucson to SLC/Bozeman* we have a group dinner tonight at a local restaurant. (B,D) • Motorcoach refreshments • Transfers & motorcoach • Services of a tour director Day 5 – Yellowstone National Park transportation • Taxes & tips for included Today we start by exploring Yellowstone’s Visitor Center, • Pick-up/livery service items (except hotel where you can see, hear, and learn how the Yellowstone • 6 nights lodging housekeeping) volcano, its geysers and hot springs and geologic history • 12 meals • Tour director, driver & local shape the distribution and abundance of all life found in guide tips the park. At the Canyon of the Yellowstone River, see the • Baggage handling colors of the canyon that resulted from hydrothermal alterations to the iron compounds in the rock. Of course, no visit would be complete without seeing Upper Geyser areas where you’ll have a sensory experience in sound, color Basin and Old Faithful. The billows of steam that rise and smell in the barren Porcelain Basin. Tonight, we enjoy a from boiling pools and the spouting geysers are truly special farewell dinner. (B,D) fascinating. (B,L) Day 7 – Bozeman to Tucson Day 5 – Yellowstone National Park Today we fly from home to Tucson from Bozeman, Montana Today we further explore Yellowstone, visiting, among with photographs, friendships and memories from these other sites, Mammoth Hot Springs, which looks like a cave glorious national parks and historic places. (B) turned inside out due to its limestone formations; Gibbons Option: Combine with the Black Hills & Badlands Tour (p. 40) Falls, discovered in 1872; and Norris Geyser Basin, the and enjoy a terrific journey, with special pricing. Contact us hottest, oldest and most dynamic of Yellowstone’s thermal for more details.