With travel restrictions lifted across the country, Americans are ready to get out and travel this summer! Due to its natural beauty and endless opportunities for outdoor recreation for the whole family, Yellowstone National Park is one of the hottest destinations each summer. But we’ve never seen Yellowstone as crowded as it is this year.
We love hosting 2021 Yellowstone tours, but they’re getting a little hard to come by. In fact, West Yellowstone, Gardiner and Cooke City all have several nights with zero lodging availability. Even if you’re able to find a place to stay, there’s still a major rental car shortage. With that rental car shortage comes sky-high prices, with some companies charging as much as $12,000 per week.
But before you throw in the towel and think it’s too late or expensive to see Yellowstone this summer, consider booking a trip through Yellowstone Tour Guides!
Why book with Yellowstone Tour Guides?
For an unrivaled and hassle-free trip to Yellowstone, be sure to make reservations with us for your 2021 Yellowstone tours. Here are a few reasons families and solo travelers come to us instead of trying to book a trip on their own:
No rental car required: Instead of paying upwards of $12,000 for a week at Yellowstone, just book a tour with us. All you need to do is book a flight to Bozeman, MT, and we can take care of the rest with some advance notice.
We can find accommodations: We mentioned above how lodging is hard to come by this summer. If you’re a little flexible with your travel dates, our experts can find a place for you to stay so you can relax and enjoy your time in the park.
The top tour guides: Our guides aren’t just experts at showing guests the best parts of Yellowstone. We also train them to avoid crowds to ensure you get to see the best of the park without dealing with a ton of other families.
See additional sites: Our guides can’t avoid all of the crowds in Yellowstone—there are just too many people! However, we can take you to less-crowded destinations like the breathtaking Beartooth Highway or historic Virginia City. Wherever you’d like to go or whatever sites you’d like to see, our guides can make it happen.
Affordable tours: There’s no reason to break the bank to see Yellowstone this summer. When you book through us, you can rest easy knowing you’re getting a great deal. We have a wide variety of vacation packages available to meet anyone’s budget.
Later-season dates available: The dates this summer are filling up fast, but if you’re able to visit later in the season, like in August, September or October, we’ve got you covered! Additionally, we offer ski trips each winter for folks looking to hit the slopes.
Don’t delay—book today! As we mentioned above, dates are filling up fast for 2021 Yellowstone tours, so be sure to book your excursion today. Email our team at [email protected] to secure your summer vacation!
The COVID-19 pandemic is finally easing up, we have a vaccine and that means summer vacations are back in full swing. If you’re thinking about coming to Yellowstone this summer, planning ahead is more important than ever. Yours is not the only group that wants to get outside and experience the natural beauty Yellowstone has to offer! Read on to learn why coming to Yellowstone this year requires some serious advance planning—and how Yellowstone Tour Guides can help.
Summer 2021 is a busy season for Yellowstone already
The greater Yellowstone area is expecting beyond capacity visitation this summer. Rental cars and lodging are already filled up during several dates this summer, both inside and outside the park. As you can imagine, now that people are becoming fully vaccinated and are able and willing to travel, they’re planning trips to the park. Not only is it one of America’s most stunning natural wonders, but if you’re still virus-wary, the outdoors is the perfect place to visit. COVID-19 transmission is much less likely to occur when you’re outside, let alone hiking the backcountry with few other people in sight.
If that sounds good to you, let Yellowstone Tour Guides take you on a trip!
How Yellowstone Tour Guides can help you plan ahead
Why plan a vacation when Yellowstone Tour Guides can do it for you? This is the best time to let us plan your multi-day vacation. All you have to do is fly into Bozeman, and we’ll take it from there. We’ll plan your lodging,tours and even your alternate activities. Just tell us about your group—age, activity level and preferences—and we’ll suggest the perfect tours for you. That guarantees you’ll see a side of Yellowstone you’ve never seen before, with experienced guides who know and genuinely love the park.
As tour guides, we know exactly how to navigate the vastness of the park. The best way to see everything you want to see is to move around the area, cutting out the commuting hours to and from the same location. In fact, at least right now, we’ve been able to find lodging and all the amenities our clients want. However, we can’t guarantee that for much longer. Tours and amenities are booking up fast, so you need to act now! Otherwise, you risk missing out on everything Yellowstone has to offer.
In fact, our multi-day trips also travel opposite of the major traffic patterns. This is by design—it keeps you out of the worst traffic jams in the park (unless the wildlife decide to park themselves in the middle of the road, which is not unusual). That way, you can see everything this majestic space has to offer.If you want to spend your summer vacation where the buffalo, bears, birds and other natural wonders are, get in touch with Yellowstone Tour Guides today. We have a variety of trips for every age and level of athleticism. Remember, planning ahead this summer is more important than ever!
2021 is a big year for Yellowstone Tour Guides, as it marks our 20th anniversary season!
We founded this business in 2001 to provide visitors to Yellowstone National Park with a wide range of comprehensive guided tours that would allow them to get a memorable experience in the park, going as in-depth as they want and seeing all the major sites and wildlife.
While the last year has been particularly unusual and challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are very optimistic that this year will be looking up, with things resembling “normal” more than they have since 2019. There are plenty of ways to book COVID-19-friendly Yellowstone experiences, and we’re here to help you along the way so you can have a national park experience you’ll remember for the rest of your life.
Want to celebrate our 20-year anniversary with us? Here are a few examples of some of the packages we offer:
Summer sightseeing tours: During the busy summer months, we offer a wide range of sightseeing tours to help you get the full Yellowstone experience! Our small group tours are available from Big Sky and West Yellowstone, MT, and go up to six people in size. This is a private tour experience with a per-person rate, using small vehicles and SUVs. This allows us to pull over for wildlife sightings, travel along smaller roads closed to buses and get you up closer to everything you want to see. We also offer various week-long group tours along the lower and upper loop and central Yellowstone, as well as private day tours (up to 11 hours).
Backpacking trips: Approximately 97 percent of Yellowstone is backcountry, so if you really want to get out and explore, backpacking trips are a great way of doing so! It’s safe, rewarding and can be challenging, depending on what you’re looking for. Backpacking trips can be single-day excursions or overnight/multi-day adventures.
Vacation packages: We offer a wide range of multi-day vacation packages, from two days up to 10, which include private tours, park entrance fees and lodging. Plan the trip you want with the activities you want! Meals and gratuities are not included.
Day hikes: As previously mentioned, we do offer some shorter backpacking excursions which we classify as day hikes. These are great opportunities to get out on shorter hikes that still allow you to take in some incredible scenery. Day hikes will typically be four to eight miles in length.
Photography tours: Are you a professional photographer or an avid amateur? We offer a number of photography tours and workshops that allow you to get some fantastic shots of the scenery and the park’s wildlife.
Winter tours: Not all of the park is open in the winter, but there are still some outstanding options to allow you to view the park from a different perspective. This includes various ski trips!
For more information about booking a tour with Yellowstone Tour Guides this year, get in touch with our team today with any questions.
Are you thinking about taking a trip to Yellowstone in the near future? As you may know, Yellowstone’s interior roads close in mid-March, then reopen in April and May—which means that if you want to see that portion of the park sooner rather than later, you need to act fast. However, you can still enjoy wolf and wildlife viewing tours throughout the late winter and early spring.
Even though the Interior of Yellowstone closes on March 15 for spring snowplowing, we will continue to offer our one- to three-day wolf and wildlife viewing tours throughout Yellowstone’s Northern Range. During this quiet shoulder season, we tend to see the first of the bears coming out of hibernation, the first bison calf (in April) and few crowds. If you love nature and wildlife—especially baby wildlife—this is a great opportunity to see the park like you never have before.
What kind of wildlife will I see?
According to the United States National Park Service, Yellowstone is home to “300 species of birds, 16 species of fish, five species of amphibians, six species of reptiles and 67 species of mammals—including seven native ungulate species and two bear species.”
If you take an early spring trip, you’re likely to see wolves and bears, along with the first bison calf. As the snow melts and the wildlife reappears, you may also see foxes, martens, weasels and deer or elk.
Birds also come back to Yellowstone during the spring, so avid bird watchers should not miss this opportunity. Raptors, owls, eagles and songbirds are all prevalent throughout the park. Bring your binoculars and your best camera lenses to capture each special moment.
What kind of tours are available?
Our wildlife tours can be booked for two or three days, starting in early November and continuing through June. This is a prime opportunity to book a tour, since the crowds are usually much lighter in the winter and early spring. Once the summer months arrive, school is out and visitors start crowding the landscape.
You can start your tour by flying into Bozeman, MT, where we will pick you up and take you through the Northern Range. You’ll enjoy lodging at Chico Hot Springs, Gardiner or Cooke City, MT, where you can also cross-country ski and soak in the hot springs.
Our trips are customizable and can be combined with some of our other tours, so feel free to call us and let us know what you’re most interested in seeing. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to relax in the evenings at your resort, including the famous hot springs.
If you’ve been dying to see what Yellowstone National Park has to offer, there’s no better time to book your vacation. Yellowstone Tour Guides has been offering exciting trips for two decades. Come explore with us. Call us today and book your wolf and wildlife viewing tour, or learn more about combining vacations.
Planning on a Yellowstone visit this spring or summer? If so, get your plans made now, because our tours book up quickly!
That’s right, now is the best time to set up a multi-day tour package if you’re interested in one of our extended Yellowstone adventures in 2021. This is the time of year when we’re able to get the best hotel rates and campsites.
You can get a hold of our staff at [email protected] for assistance in planning your Yellowstone adventure this year. Keep in mind that Yellowstone is a massive park, so it’s best to stay in different locations to get the best experience. This will help you make a more active trip, and cut out some of the backtracking and driving you have to do.
Our team can help you plan out your entire trip, including lodging, backpacking, tour routes, alternate activities to take on and more. Fly into Bozeman, and we’ll handle the rest from there!
Here are a few examples of some of the multi-day Yellowstone tour packages we offer:
Simple two-day Yellowstone trips: Just here for a weekend or a quick visit? We can get you a great experience packed into a short timeframe to help you make the most of your limited time at the park. On day one, you’ll depart Big Sky or Bozeman and visit such sites as Firestone Falls, Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake, the Upper and Lower Falls, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Dunraven Pass, Crystal Falls and then stay overnight in Cooke City. On day two, you’ll see some early morning wildlife, take in Tower Falls and the Mammoth Hot Springs, see the Petrified Tree and enjoy a short day hike in the backcountry.
Seven-day Yellowstone trips: If you’re interested in a longer visit, we can plan out an entire seven-day adventure for you in Yellowstone that will give you extended time in the park that includes some of the must-see items and plenty of time for you to get into the backcountry and enjoy some of the solitude and wildlife of the park. Rates start at $1,500 per day for double occupancy and $2,000 per day for quad occupancy. We also offer seven-day trips that include short backpacking excursions.
Eight-day Yellowstone trips: Our eight-day trips add in Grand Teton National Park and Beartooth Highway, which are not usually included in our seven-day trips. You still have opportunities to add in time for backpacking, and you’ll have plenty of time to visit all the must-see sites in the park. Starting rates are the same as for the seven-day trips.
10-day Yellowstone trips: Our 10-day trips spread out the adventure possibilities, including time in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson, WY, adding in many of the elements of the seven- and eight-day trips, with more adventure time and more time for you to relax and enjoy nature.
For more information about our multi-day tour packages or to book your visit in 2021, contact the team at Yellowstone Tour Guides today.
