We offer two versions of this one day Yellowstone tour from Salt Lake City. The longer one you see on this page runs most days during the season. The shorter tour, is less expensive, but has more limited availability.
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Price
$595.00/person
for 8 to 10 people
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$635.00/person
for 5 to 7 people
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$735.00/person
for 3 to 4 people
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$825.00/person
for 1 to 2 people
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All prices are in US currency.
Highlights
Itinerary
Day 1 - Salt Lake City to Yellowstone - About 1.25 hours
This Yellowstone tour is an opportunity for you to take in the best that the world's first national park has to offer. This tour begins at the Salt Lake City International Airport, from where you will fly to Yellowstone. If you bring checked luggage, there will be a fee, charged by the airline, which you will need to pay. Your guide will be waiting for you when you land, and you will be inside the park literally within minutes of landing!
Day 1 - Yellowstone - About 3 hours, 15 minutes
The roads running through Yellowstone make up a massive figure of eight. The lower loop of the figure of eight comprises most of the thermal features (geysers, hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles) that are to be seen in Yellowstone, including, of course, Old Faithful! These are Yellowstone's main attractions, and this, plus wildlife, is what we will be focusing on today.
We frequently get asked how often we stop inside Yellowstone. Basically we stop any time there is something to see or do, or any time there is a picture to be taken! This means that you spend a lot of time outside the vehicle, walking around, shooting images, and touring the various geyser basins and other sights on foot, rather than sitting in the vehicle all the time. Having said that, if you would rather stay closer to the vehicle, you can almost always see much of what there is to be seen without having to go too far. This tour does not involve any hiking, but rather walking around the great sights. From West Yellowstone we'll follow the Madison River to Madison Junction. At Madison Junction we will turn right, or south, and travel along the Firehole River which runs through Yellowstone's thermal areas. The Firehole is famous amongst anglers for its pristine beauty and selection of brown, brook and rainbow trout. Depending on the time of the year, this area is often teeming with wildlife. With any luck you will see bison, elk, Trumpeter Swans and other animals and birds. A special treat in the spring is the baby bison calves. 
The first main thermal area we will be visiting is the Lower Geyser Basin, and Fountain Paint Pot. There is an extensive boardwalk system running around and through the Fountain Paint Pot area, and it is a great place to go for a stroll, if the bison haven't got there first! Apart from the paint pots, there is also a selection of other thermal features in the area, including a number of geysers, one or other of which almost always seems to be erupting.
The next stop is the Midway Geyser Basin, home to Grand Prismatic Spring - one of the largest anywhere in the world - plus Excelsior Geyser, now dormant, but discharging thousands of gallons of water every minute. There is also a boardwalk system through this Basin, and you will be able to explore all of it.
It is a short drive to the Upper Geyser Basin, home of Old Faithful, the world's best known and most reliable gusher. Soon you'll be watching Old Faithful erupting - no tour to Yellowstone would be complete without that! This may also be a good time to enjoy the sack lunch we have prepared for you.
There is a lot more to the Upper Geyser Basin than Old Faithful. Old Faithful Inn is a wonderful and historic old wooden building, one of the greatest in the National Park system, and well worth a visit. There are many other geysers in the area as well, and you should also be able to walk around and take in some of them. A tour of Yellowstone is by nature very fluid. We never know what we may see around the next corner, or when we will run into a buffalo jam! For this reason, this itinerary may change. 
Old Faithful erupting!
Day 1 - From the lower loop to Mammoth Hot Springs - About 2 hours, 45 minutes
Leaving Yellowstone's main geyser basins behind us, we will take a delightful drive north, up the west side of the lower loop, viewing several interesting thermal features on the way, before we stop for photos at Gibbon Falls, on the Gibbon River.
A little further up the road is Norris Geyser Basin, which is the most thermally active part of Yellowstone. Norris actually consists of two geyser basins, Back Basin and Porcelain Basin, and we'll take a look at both. Steamboat Geyser, the world's highest geyser is to be found in Back Basin, but the chances of seeing it erupt are slim. As the name suggest, however, there is always steam spewing forth from this gusher.
Roaring Mountain is an uprising in the land, which is full of fumaroles, and there will be a brief photo stop there.
Another highlight of this Yellowstone tour is Mammoth Hot Springs. In addition to the ever changing terraces, Mammoth is Yellowstone's headquarters, and where the US Army was based when it was sent to the park to combat poaching. There is an elk herd that hangs out at Mammoth, and the contrast between the wild animals and historic buildings always makes for a great photo.
Day 1 - Mammoth Hot Springs to Bozeman - About 1 hours, 50 minutes
From Mammoth we'll make our way past the Boiling River and the 45th Parallel, through an area known for its bighorn sheep, before we come to the historic Roosevelt Arch, just outside Yellowstone's north entrance. There is also a possibility that you may see pronghorn in this area. We'll continue north, through very rural Montana, until we reach the small town of Livingston, where we will pick up Interstate 90, and continue towards Bozeman.
Day 1 - Bozeman airport to Salt Lake City - One hour 25 minutes
You will be dropped off at the Bozeman airport for the relatively short flight, on a twin engine jet airplane, back to the Salt Lake City airport, where the tour ends. Thanks for joining us!
Please be aware that park entry is not included on this tour, and you will need to pay it on arrival.
We regret that no cancellations or changes will be accepted, and no refunds will be given.
Tour ID
1369
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