Yellowstone Adventure

After meeting your fellow travellers and guides in Bozeman, our adventure will begin with a thrilling zipline tour at the West Yellowstone Ropes Course. Over the next couple of hours, you'll have the chance to play on 3,000 feet of ziplines with five stories of complex and challenging acrobatic high ropes course elements. Take your time or power through the course with an easy self-belay harness system that gives you the freedom to navigate the course at your own pace while always being securely clipped to a static webbing/harness system. After a picnic lunch, we’ll continue our exploration of this area including walks around Geyser Hill before heading to Old Faithful Snow Lodge, our home for the night, and we’ll have a chance to watch Old Faithful erupt under the stars. (Please note: On certain departures, we stay at Grant Village as an alternative to Old Faithful Snow Lodge).Old Faithful Snow Lodge or Grant Village (Lunch, Dinner)Artemisia to Upper Geyser Basin Boardwalk Hiking Distance: 3.3 kilometres (2.1 miles), 1-2 hoursElevation Gain: 25 metres (82 feet)Elevation Loss: 25 metres (82 feet)

After a hearty breakfast we’ll start the day with a hike through the Upper Geyser Basin to Observation Point, from here we’ll have amazing panorama views of the geysers below. We’ll enjoy a tasty guide-prepared picnic lunch before embarking on another extraordinary hike. This hike takes us along the northern shore of Lake Yellowstone. You'll stroll through flower-dotted meadows and lodgepole pine forests until you reach Yellowstone’s largest lake with its wide-open views of the Absaroka Mountain Range.After, we’ll make our way to the north of the National Park where the rustic accommodations allow for the opportunity to step back from technology and embrace lodging in the country’s oldest national park. (Please note: On certain departures, we stay at Canyon Lodge as an alternate to Lake Lodge Cabins).Lake Lodge Cabins or Canyon Lodge (All meals)Observation Point Hiking Distance: 3.6 kilometres (2.2 miles) 1 hourElevation Gain: 80 metres (262 feet)Elevation Loss: 80 metres (262 feet)Lake Yellowstone Hiking Distance: 3.2 to 6.4 kilometres (2 to 4 miles) 2 to 3 hours, mostly flat

This morning we’ll check out the Yellowstone River’s Upper Falls where the water flows powerfully over the brink. From there we can appreciate the waterfall’s power and spend time here. We’ll set off on a hike on the Wapiti Trail - this hike will bring us to the rim of the 10,000-year-old, 1,000-foot deep Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. As we carefully make our way along the canyon wall, at every bend the pinks, yellows, reds, and oranges of the rock appear all the more bright as you walk to the grand finale of Artist Point, the most spectacular viewpoint of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. We’ll enjoy lunch here before making our way down Uncle Tom’s trail. Our accommodation tonight was named after the steaming limestone terraces just above the main building. Elk routinely graze outside the hotel around the parade grounds of what was once Fort Yellowstone.Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel & Cabins (All meals)Upper Falls Hiking Distance: 0.5 kilometres (0.3 miles)Wapiti Trail Hiking Distance: 4 kilometres (2.5 miles), 1.5-2 hoursElevation Gain: metres ( feet)Elevation Loss: metres ( feet)