Experience Overview
Venture into Montana's outstanding national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton. You'll enjoy breath-taking natural beauty, mountains, geysers, wildlife watching and the fresh open air. Your adventure starts in Bozeman, before you embark on a four-day voyage into the magnificent Yellowstone National Park, the most in-depth exploration that we offer. See famous geysers and hot springs, view wildlife, discover the land with a Local Expert and explore downtown Bozeman.
Highlights
Dining Summary
- 2 Dinner with Wine (DW)
- 6 Breakfast (B)
- 2 Lunch (L)
Additional Included Highlights
- From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
- Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
- We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
- Our highly-skilled Travel Director will ensure your journey is seamless, serving as your expert guide, consummate organiser, and friend overseas.
- Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
- Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).
Authentic Dining
- Bozeman: Meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers for a dinner at Copper Restaurant.
- West Yellowstone: Enjoy a 3-course lunch with one glass of beer/wine included at Bullwinkle's Saloon and Eatery, a local family-owned restaurant.
- Jackson: Enjoy a creative lunch with a view at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s member’s only lounge. Savor inventive dishes made with seasonal, sustainable and local ingredients presented in a creative way overlooking the National Elk Refuge. Try their salad, elk Bolognese lasagna or seasonal vegetarian quiche and lemon posset as dessert.
Insight Choice
- Walk in the footsteps of Bozeman’s founders on its historic Main Street as you appreciate its place in the history of the West. Once a gathering place for the local indigenous peoples’ tribes, Bozeman also served a vital role during the 1860s gold rush. Hear stories of important figures including John Bozeman, Daniel Rouse, Nelson Story and architect Fred Willson. From wooden shacks to brick beauties, the unique architecture represents different phases of Bozeman’s growth.
- Delve into cultural and natural history at the Museum of the Rockies (MOR). Exploring their rotating and permanent exhibits -- including Landforms/Lifeforms and Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky, Welcome to Yellowstone Country, Enduring Peoples and the Paugh History Hall -- experience science, art, culture and history. Don’t miss their collection of dinosaur fossils, including the fully mounted Montana Trex skeletons.
Insight Experiences
- Jackson: Enjoy access to the Members-Only Lounge.
Make Travel Matter
- Yellowstone National Park: Discover Yellowstone National Park with local artist John Potter who’ll bring to life the complex relationships that exist in nature. Growing up in northern Wisconsin, Potter developed a love for the Natural World early on and learned many of the traditions of his Anishinaabe (Ojibwe/Chippewa) ancestors. After he was drawn to the arts in childhood, Potter spent 20 years as an award-winning illustrator for a large Montana newspaper before painting landscapes and wildlife full time in 2002. Potter has since made his home in the Greater Yellowstone region and has developed a special relationship with the land and all its inhabitants. Your experience advances United Nations Global Goals 10 & 11: Reduced Inequalities & Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Top Rated Highlights
- Yellowstone National Park: The world’s first National Park, Yellowstone spans 2,219,789 acres and even has its own Grand Canyon. The park is home to half of the world’s hydrothermal features, more than 10,000, of which over 300 are geysers. Yellowstone is also a wildlife paradise. Some 1,700 species of plants and 400 species of birds, fish and mammals live in the park, including bison, wolves, bears, elk and moose.
- Yellowstone National Park: One of the major geyser basins in Yellowstone, the Mammoth Hot Springs Area is visually unique from the other thermal features in the park. Here, hot water rises through the limestone, dissolving large quantities of rock and leaving a chalky mineral deposit in the surface. Find yourself by the bubbling waters, whose constant movement means the springs are changing all the time.
- Yellowstone National Park: Two gentle hikes offer the chance to admire the views and meander past many of the park's beautiful and historic hot spring terraces. An abundance of wildlife inhabits the area including bears, elk, mule deer, moose, beavers and a large variety of water birds.
- Yellowstone National Park: The many sights of this magnificent National Park include its spectacular geysers and bubbling hot springs. A heady mix of open meadows and hills, deep canyons and cascading falls awaits you along with stunning viewpoints from which to admire the park and its surrounding areas.
- Yellowstone National Park: The Park’s Upper Geyser Basin and Midway Geyser Basin are home to some of the world's most spectacular hydrothermal features: Old Faithful Geyser, Opal Pool, Turquoise Pool, Excelsior Geyser Crater and Grand Prismatic Spring.
- Grand Teton National Park: Travel through a mountainous landscape like no other. Witness the striking Grand Tetons thrust skyward 6,562 feet (2,000 meters) from the valley floor and keenly watch for exciting wildlife that call these mountains home. Including the grizzly bear, bald eagles, moose, bison, and elk.
Well-being
- Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
- Experience enhanced hygiene protocols to align with the latest guidance following COVID-19. All Travel Directors and Drivers have completed training in enhanced well-being and hygiene protocols.
- Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
- We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.
Trip Details
Product Code: 28084
Tour Type: Group Tour
Accommodation: Deluxe
Transport: Private
Guide Language: English
Travel Styles: Family, 55+, Luxury
Tour Operator: Insight Vacations (CA)
Supplier Code: 311.1643B
Starts: Bozeman, United States Of America
Finishes: Jackson (WY), United States Of America
Duration: 7 days
Departures: Guaranteed
Physical Rating: Easy
Includes
Price
Price per person: (Double Occupancy) CAD $5,148 ($735 /day)
Itinerary
Views of the magnificent Rocky Mountain welcome to you Bozeman. Get to know this charming town with an easy stroll along Main Street. Savor dinner accompanied by wine in the company of your fellow travelers.
Accommodation: AC by Marriott Downtown, Bozeman
Meals: Dinner with Wine
Let your curiosity be your guide as you explore Bozeman with Insight Choice. Opt to join a guided walking tour of Bozeman’s historic Main Street, once a gathering place for the local indigenous people and an important location in the 1860s gold rush. Enjoy the stories of the colorful characters who helped mold the look and shape of the town as you stroll past historic buildings representing different phases of Bozeman’s growth. Or, visit the Museum of the Rockies, a world-class cultural and natural history museum renowned for displaying an extensive collection of dinosaur fossils. Get up close to the fully mounted Montana Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton and explore exhibits including Welcome to Yellowstone Country, Enduring Peoples and the Paugh History Hall.
Accommodation: AC by Marriott Downtown, Bozeman
Meals: Breakfast
Depart Bozeman in the morning and enter the vast wonderland of Yellowstone National Park. The world’s first National Park, Yellowstone spans over 2.2 million acres and is full of natural wonders, geothermal phenomena and diverse, free-roaming wildlife. Spend the afternoon sightseeing and wildlife spotting in Yellowstone with your Travel Director, looking out for wolves, bears, elk and moose. In the late afternoon, join local artist John Potter for an insightful MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience, learning about the natural environment in a whole new way. Potter reveals the park's history, culture and wildlife through his deep artistic and spiritual connection to the land based on the traditions of his Anishinaabe (Ojibwe/Chippewa) ancestors.
Accommodation: Canyon Lodge, Yellowstone National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
One of the major geyser basins in Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs terraces invites you to put boots to ground on a gentle hike. The 2.2-mile Mammoth Terraces Trail passes many of the most beautiful and historic hot spring terraces of the park and snakes up to a sweeping outlook. This afternoon, explore Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District at your leisure. Get up close and personal with Fort Yellowstone where 35 structures remain from the 1890's and early 1900's. View the Mail Carrier's Cabin, the only 1800s log structure still standing in Mammoth Hot Springs from the time when mail carriers delivered the mail from railroad distribution points to remote post offices. After this step back in time, your Travel Director reveals more of Yellowstone National Park.
Accommodation: Canyon Lodge, Yellowstone National Park
Meals: Breakfast
Join Local Expert, Adam Brubaker of Tied to Nature for a private tour of Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Hayden Valley and Lake Yellowstone. Formed by erosion caused by the Yellowstone river, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone offers views of dramatic colors and shapes as puffs of steam rise from the canyon walls. Making your way along Hayden Valley, watch for herds of bison, elk and the occasional grizzly bear. Lastly, bask in the beauty of Yellowstone Lake, the largest high elevation lake in North America. After learning about the creation of the park’s waterfalls, canyon, wildlife, and human and geological history, enjoy sightseeing in the park with your Travel Director.
Accommodation: Grant Village, Yellowstone National Park.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Set off this morning with a hike on the Midway Geyser Loop, strolling along the boardwalks as steam rises from the distant Grand Prismatic Spring - Yellowstone's largest hot spring - and past Turquoise Pool and Opal Pool. Your Travel Director leads the way to Old Faithful showcasing other highlights of the park along the way. After lunch, take your time exploring the many impressive thermal features around Old Faithful, one of Yellowstone’s most famous geysers. From rising steam to colorful pools and ponds, choose from a variety of hikes from less than a mile to 3.5 miles.
Accommodation: Grant Village, Yellowstone National Park.
Meals: Breakfast
Conclude your journey in Grand Teton National Park to marvel at the stunning mountain peaks as your Travel Director reveals all the best vistas in this wildlife haven. Cap off your adventure with a lunch in the private Members Only lounge of the museum. In the late afternoon, bid farewell to the national parks to transfer to Jackson Hole Airport arriving at 2:00 PM. Please note this time when booking flights or extend your stay in Jackson.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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Insight Vacations (CA)
Part of The Travel Company (TTC) family of brands, Insight Vacations began operations in 1978 and is based in Cypress, CA. Journeys are featured to destinations, such as the U.S. and Canada, Europe, Latin America, North Africa, Asia, the UK and Ireland. The company offers are a variety of tours under the classifications of Regional Journeys, Country Roads, Discovery Journeys, Easy Pace trips, and Special Interest tours. Insight is the ideal name for the tour operator, as the journeys provided by Insight Vacations allow travelers to gain further insight into whatever destination they wish to explore. For example, Discovery Journeys are the ideal choice for first-time visitors to Europe. Itineraries include Dine-at-Home or Farm-to-Table experiences so travelers can learn more about how locals live and dine. Regional Journeys allow trip-goers to see a specific location in Europe that they have always wanted to see – Poland, Switzerland, Italy, etc. The carefully planned trips enable customers to immerse themselves in one specific region or country and to become acquainted with its culture, traditions, and people. For anyone seeking travel off the beaten track, Insight Vacations offers Country Roads – trips that lead travelers off the well-tread tourist trail to explore hidden gems where visitors can savor the local produce with Farm-to-Table dining. Some trips are offered under the Easy Pace travel style – the ideal trip choice for trip-goers who wish to slow their pace during their vacation. During these tours, vacationers stay at least 3 nights at each destination, giving them some additional time to explore a place and enjoy it. Regardless of the travel style, many of the vacations offered by Insight Vacations begin with Relaxed Starts – giving travelers time to sleep in a little, spend more time at breakfast, or explore an area on their own. The tour company prides itself on providing business class tours that features luxury coaches with 40 seats. While most coach touring operators provide vehicles with 53 seats, Insight Vacations has re-configured its motor coaches to hold up to 40 guests. This gives passengers extra leg room while traveling and offers them more space and privacy.
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