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The Best Guided Tours of Yellowstone National Park

Sightseeing Tours, Private Tours & Options, Day Hiking Tours, Photography Tours & Workshops, Special Trips & Backpacking Treks

Sightseeing Tours

We offer a unique approach to touring, instead of large, impersonal 20 and 30 passenger buses, we tour in SUVs and minivans. So, sure we charge more, but we are not collecting for 20 or more people either. Small groups enable us to stop and turn around for most wildlife sightings; travel on the smaller roads closed to larger buses and allows us to shorten an already long day. Smaller vehicles and our departure times allow us to navigate the heavy summer traffic with ease, allowing us to spend more time viewing Yellowstone’s diverse sights, and less time sitting in traffic. Our guides do not want to be stuck in the traffic either. Book a private tour, and we can show you how to really beat the crowds. Up to 6 people per tour.

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The Lower Loop Adventure:

Our most popular tour which visits the main attractions of the park. Tour times are 8 hours from West Yellowstone and 10 hours from Big Sky.

Main attractions (if open): The Fountain Paint Pots, Firehole Lake Drive, Old Faithful Geyser, the Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Lake, the Lake Hotel, Hayden Valley, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Upper Falls, Lower Falls, Crystal Falls and Gibbon Falls. More time permitting.

Grand Prismatic is available on private tours only, this is a 2-mile round trip hike. Please let your guide know at the start of your tour if you would like to visit Grand Prismatic. Grand Prismatic is not available on the small group tours.

The Upper Loop Adventure:

This tour heads into the less crowded and wild side of Yellowstone. There is more mileage on this trip, especailly when Dunraven Pass is closed. This trip gets into the park’s best wildlife habitat, and is great in the spring for bears.

Main attractions (if open): Roaring Mountain (optional), Rustic Falls, Mammoth Hot Springs, Upper Terrace Drive, Undine Falls, the Petrified Tree, Tower Falls, the Lamar Valley, Dunraven Pass and a good variety of wildlife. More time permitting.

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Group Rates:

Small Group Tours (West Yellowstone and Big Sky only)
- Available from June 1st through September 1st; up to 6 people per tour - 2 person minimum required for trips to operate

Adults

Big Sky $425
West Yellowstone $375

*Children/Seniors:

Big Sky $400
West Yellowstone $350

4% Tax For Departures From Big Sky

$1050 for Bozeman
$1300 for Old Faithful, Canyon, etc.

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Private Tours And Day Hikes:

Big Sky

$975 for 1-2 people
$1,075 for 3 to 4 people
$1,175 for 5 to 6 people

West Yellowstone

$850 for 1-2 people
$950 for 3 to 4 people
$1000 for 5 to 6 people

Private Tours and Options

Private Winter Tour Rates:

From Bozeman and Livingston:

$1050 for 1-2 people

$1250 for 3-6 people

From Big Sky: (4% Tax For Departures From Big Sky)

$1200 for 1-2 people

$1500 for 3-6 people

Photography Tours

$1200 per day

4% Tax For Departures From Big Sky

*Children 15 and under; Seniors 62 and over.

All Rates do not include the park entrance fees, meals or guides gratuities. We recommend all guests bring a box lunch to avoid long restaurant delays.

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Private Tours and Options

All of our tours are available on a private tour basis, just you and your friends and family. You may choose to take one of our classic tours, the day hiking adventure with more site seeing or a tour to a completely different location. In addition, to Yellowstone tours, we offer private tours to the Beartooth Highway and Virginia City National Historic Landmark, so that you can get away from the crowds for a day.

The Beartooth Highway (West Yellowstone only)

Memorial Day weekend through early October (weather permitting)

This trip is recommended as a two-day trip because of the mileage. 2-day trips include lodging for 1 night and 2 days of touring. 2-day trips will visit the equally scenic Chief Joseph Highway, and Cody, WY (optional).

This trip will travel through Yellowstone, but due to the mileage, there will be no stops (unless there is a phenominal wildlife sighting). This trip will focus on the Beartooth Highway, called America’s most scenic road by Charles Karault. The road climbs up to almost 11,000 feet and is the longest stretch of highway above

10,000 feet in the world. Guests can have a snowball fight almost any day of the summer, and the viewpoints offer views for miles. The one day version will turn around at Vista Point, the 2 day version will drop down to Red Lodge, MT at 5500 feet, giving you over a mile of vertical drop in 16 miles.

The two day version will stay in Red Lodge or Cooke City, and will also make the loop through the ghost town of Bear Creek, MT and the Chief Joseph Highway and Cody, WY (upon request, 2 hour limit).

Day Hike Adventures

Yellowstone’s backcountry is wild, beautiful and a great way to beat the summertime crowds. Our guides are trained in Yellowstone’s backcountry, and will offer you the use of our bear spray (ages 13 and over), and instruction. Every trail has great scenery and we will tailor hikes to the group’s interests and abilities.

Great Day Hiking Tours:

We will depart for this full day adventure and travel up to 2 and a half hours to a trailhead (3 hours from Big Sky), taking in some wildlife photography along the way. A great day in the backcountry awaits you! This hike is 4 to 8 miles. You can take this hiking tour 10 days in a row (or even more), and go somewhere different every time.

Guests will want to bring rain gear, water bottles, lunch, lip balm, insect repellent and a small day pack. Fording shoes or sandals are optional, but will give us more options for trails.

Rates:

We provide hiking poles, bear spray use and instruction.

The full setup: Add $30 per person and you will receive lunch, a souvenir water bottle, and use of our day pack.

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Day Hiking Tours

Photography Tours & Workshops

Join professional photographer David Reeves, to learn how to best shoot Yellowstone scenery and wildlife. These trips are more involved, which allow photographers to travel at a slower pace, and to receive tips from a local Yellowstone expert. These are always private tours and are $750 per day.

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Photography Tours

Contact Us for Special Trips

We offer unique tours, such as multi-day vacation planning, including hotels and tours (must be booked before June 1st), group backpacking tours, special day hikes, photography workshops, backcountry photography workshops (easy backpacking with Sherpas), and many more options. Check out our Facebook page for near daily photos from our tours.

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Special Trips & Vacations

Our Backpacking Treks

Yellowstone offers a huge variety of trails and private campsites.

Although we do recommend backpacking trips reserve before March 1st, we can often find campsites for last minute reservations. Please check our website for scheduled group tours (also booked well in advance).

There are many trails and campsites that are family friendly, even for 5 year olds. We have all of the latest and lightest gear available. Why not unplug the kids for an evening and spend the night in Yellowstone’s backcountry interacting around the fire?

Easy overnighters for the kids will give them memories for a lifetime.

For last minute trips call us for rates and availability. In addition, please contact us for rates.

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Backpacking Adventures

About Yellowstone Tour Guides

Yellowstone Tour Guides is an authorized operator through the NPS CUA Program for road based, hiking, skiing, backpacking, photography and fishing (backpacking trips only) in Yellowstone National Park.

Our Staff

We have had very little turnover over the years, Yellowstone is so large and complex we have found having an experienced staff is crucial. Most of our guides work in the park year round, giving them the big picture of the park. We also encourage our guides to continue their education and to keep up to date on the newest scientific research about Yellowstone’s Caldera, the Hot Spring Biology and of course the wildlife.

Scott Barlow: Guiding since 1998
Jim Holstein: Guiding since 1991
David Reeves: Guiding since 2007

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