Wyoming Adventure Trips: Yellowstone Wildlife Tours, Hiking, Grand Teton Backpacking, Rafting, Fishing, and More

From NOLS Backpacking and Mountaineering Courses, to Winter Safaris to experience the Wolves and Wildlife of Yellowstone, our Wyoming adventure trips offer something for everyone!

Wide, open spaces that stop only because they bump into mountains. Two of the nation’s most spectacular national parks. Animals so numerous, they outnumber people. A spattering of cow towns. This is the real Wild West; this is Wyoming.

Most of Yellowstone National Park lies within the state’s borders. The park’s location on top of a volcanic crater has resulted in a powerful and unforgettable landscape of geysers, fumaroles, mud pots, lakes, and canyons. The geologic activity found here is matched by the vitality that grizzly bears, bald eagles, bighorn sheep, elk, moose, black bears, coyotes, and gray wolves breathe into it. Inside this pulsating realm, you’ll be able to choose among adventures that will allow you to hone your fly-fishing skills; ford high mountain rivers; kayak and raft Wyoming waters; ramble boardwalks over bubbling hot pools; watch for wolves in legendary valleys; or cross-country ski, snowshoe, or snow-coach through pristine winter snows.

Yellowstone National Park’s eastern neighbor is the Absaroka Range, a vast wilderness with some of the most remote territory in the Lower 48. Here, taking a Wyoming trip means traveling through broad river valleys surrounded by sheer, glacier-carved cliffs; camping under towering conifers; and hiking across alpine plateaus where the tallest plants are only a few inches high.

Farther south, the towering granite peaks of Grand Teton National Park call to climbers, hikers, and skiers. And twisting along the base of these snow-speckled peaks is the Snake River, a paddler’s paradise that flows with bald eagles, elk, moose, and river otters.

When you do venture into Wyoming’s towns, the spirit of the Wild West endures. Around the sophisticated resort town of Jackson, for example, numerous guest and working ranches continue to be a part of many Wyoming tours. On Jackson Lake, you may paddle beneath a cowboy-country moon and the same starry skies that lured the gaze of ancient tribes and settlers.

Wyoming boasts a lot of “firsts”: first state to have a county public library system (Laramie County Public Library System, 1886), the world’s first national park (Yellowstone, 1872), first national forest (Shoshone National Forest, 1891), first ranger station (Wapiti Ranger Station, Shoshone National Forest, 1891), first national monument (Devils Tower, 1906), and first place on your own where-to-travel-next list.

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