Jackson Hole Full Day Wildlife Tour and Safari

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Jackson Hole & Grand Teton Full Day Tour:

This is our favorite trip to lead, as Grand Teton National Park is a hot-spot for wildlife and a geological marvel. Explore wildlife from one of our premier touring vehicles. Spend 8-hours in this Nation’s most beautiful and undiscovered National Park! Located just south of Yellowstone, it is sometimes forgotten, but in our opinion even more breathtaking and crawling with native wildlife, deep history, and stunning views. Similar to the 4hr dawn or dusk but more comprehensive.

Elk, moose, mule deer, pronghorn, bison, bighorn sheep, grizzly and black bear, and wolves can all be seen within the park boundaries. Grand Teton National Park is also a spring and summer birders paradise that includes bald and golden eagles, sandhill cranes, osprey, hawks, and owls.  And we don’t forget the plants and wildflowers that support this array of animal life.

Species that can be viewed will vary throughout the year as the  seasons change in Grand Teton National Park.

Winter (November-March):

Due to winter road closures the summer loop is not possible, but we can still access Jackson Lake and the Oxbow Bend in the north of the park as well as driving the Gros Ventre Road to Kelly Warm Springs, and the Inner Park road to Taggart Lake in the south of the park.

After a lunch of your choice at Dornans or Palate’s restaurant in the National Museum of Wildlife Art, we spend the afternoon on the National Elk Refuge where we can often see elk, bighorn sheep, sometimes bison and occasionally wolves. This tour includes an Elk Refuge sleigh ride.

Summer (April-October):

This trip is a circuit of the park with some side trips depending on what you want to see and the time available. Typically, we start on the Gros Ventre Road, before looping past Morman Row and heading north towards Jackson Lake and the Oxbow Bend. We have plenty of time to explore the northern Grizzly country, before returning on the Inner Park Road.

This tour is ideal if you want to get out and do some walking. There is no Guided Hiking permitted in Grand Teton National Park so we are limited to walks within half a mile of a trailhead.

We will provide a picnic lunch in the park.

Winter Full day trips include lunch and a trip to the National Wildlife Art Museum.

The National Museum of Wildlife Art, founded in 1987, is a Jackson Hole museum holding more than 5,000 artworks representing wild animals from around the world. Featuring work by prominent artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Robert Kuhn, John James Audubon, and Carl Rungius, the Museum’s unsurpassed permanent collection chronicles much of the history of wildlife in art, from 2500 B.C. to the present. Built into a hillside overlooking the National Elk Refuge, the Museum received the designation “National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States” by order of Congress in 2008. Boasting a museum shop, interactive children’s gallery, Restaurant, and outdoor sculpture trail, the Museum is only two-and-a-half miles north of Jackson Town Square, and two miles from the gateway of Grand Teton National Park.

The National Museum of Wildlife Art is proud to welcome more than 60,000 visitors through its doors annually, including more than 8,000 children. The Museum’s award-winning architecture is known for its amazing synergy with the Jackson Hole landscape. The 51,000 square foot building with its Idaho quartzite façade was inspired by the ruins of Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and echoes the rugged hillside behind the facility. It overlooks the 25,000 acre National Elk Refuge and is only 2.5 miles north of the town of Jackson, Wyoming.