For Active, Early Risers
Half-day interpretive tour designed for wildlife viewing. Perfect for early risers! Explore Grand Teton National Park and surrounding National Forest lands at the break of dawn when wildlife are most active with your own personal guide.
Established in 1929, Grand Teton National Park encompasses 485 square miles of natural habitat for elk, moose, bighorn sheep, birds of prey, and wolves. Explore the beauty of the southern half of the park including panoramic views of Grand Teton peak at 13,775 ft in elevation. This magnificent ecosystem comes alive in the summer, offering abundant opportunities for wildlife viewing while learning about the ecology, natural history, and cultural heritage of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Highlights:
- Extremely passionate and knowledgeable guide with a trained eye for spotting wildlife
- Start the day viewing local fauna in the quiet, dawn hours when wildlife is most active
- Local expertise on best spots for viewing elk, moose, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, bison, mule deer, foxes, eagles and more around Jackson Hole
- Explore Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest
- Use of professional field guide books, antlers, horns, skins and skulls
What’s Included:
- Customized Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans with rooftop hatches for easier viewing access
- High quality spotting scopes and binoculars available for enhanced wildlife observation
- Complimentary coffee, tea, cocoa, variety of soft drinks and snacks
- Souvenir water bottles
Private tours pick up at hotels or accommodations in Jackson, Teton Village, and some areas of Wilson. Special arrangements can be made for individuals not staying in these locations but who are en route to the park.
* National Park pass and gratuity not included
Additional Tour Information
Enjoy the comfort of customized Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans on your wildlife viewing tour. All vans are equipped with rooftop hatches for wildlife viewing.
Dress in layers for comfort! We recommend lightweight jackets, breathable base layers, sturdy hiking boots, hats, and sunglasses to keep you cool and prepared for the summer elements.
Our guides can tailor the tour to your interests and needs to enhance your experience—just let us know what you'd like!
Our guide will pick you up at the hotel/lodging provided during booking. If you did not specify a pickup location, please call (307) 733-2623 or email us at info@wildlifeexpeditions.org to ensure we have the critical pickup information.
Wildlife Expeditions and Wyoming Stargazing Cancellation Policy
The safety and satisfaction of our customers are our primary concerns. We strive to offer engaging, inspiring, and educational programs. We will use our telescopes to help our customers see the Cosmos whenever possible. However, sometimes the weather only allows us to engage our customers with the stories about the night sky without getting to see much through the telescopes.
In the event of inclement weather, we do our best to re-book stargazing programs for another night. Please consider booking programs early during a trip so that in the event of a weather issue we have the chance to stargaze another night.
At the time of booking we collect payment in full which includes a 10% nonrefundable deposit for any program that we run regardless of the outcome of the weather on the night of the program. Wildlife programs run rain or shine. There is no charge if we cancel the stargazing program because of weather before the program begins. In the event that the weather prevents us from showing you some or all of the typical objects we show during a program a partial refund of up to 90% of the total cost of the program will be issued. No refunds are issued for the 6% nonrefundable online booking fee if customers booked themselves online. You can avoid this 6% booking fee by booking the program over the phone by calling us at 1-844-WYO-STAR (1-844-996-7827) for Wyoming Stargazing or at 1-877-404-6626 for Wildlife Expeditions.
If the program is canceled by the customer within 48 hours of the scheduled start time of the program there is no refund. However, we understand that life happens so we’ll always do our best to be reasonable and work with each customer on an individual basis to try to make things right.
If the program is rebooked at the request of the customer we will charge a 5% administration fee in addition to the 10% nonrefundable deposit.