Meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over dinner and wine at Copper Restaurant in downtown Bozeman. It is a welcoming introduction to the group in a town framed by the Rocky Mountains.

Bozeman has long been a gateway to Yellowstone and Montana’s wide-open landscapes. Sharing a meal here offers a chance to settle into the town’s atmosphere and hear what draws visitors to this corner of the American West.

• 2 Dinner (D)
• 6 Breakfast (B)
• 2 Lunch (L)

• Experience enhanced hygiene protocols to align with the latest guidance following COVID-19. All Travel Directors and Drivers have completed training in enhanced well-being and hygiene protocols.
• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
• We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.

• Yellowstone National Park: Journey into Yellowstone’s northern range with Local Expert Adam Brubaker, naturalist, wildlife photographer and Yellowstone Guide, for an up-close encounter with the park’s extraordinary wildlife. From elusive wolves to mighty bison, discover the delicate balance of this vast ecosystem. Visit the site of Yellowstone’s historic wolf reintroduction, explore the Lamar Valley and gain fresh insights into America’s first national park. 

Insight Vacations

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• Premium regional accommodation

Join a guided walk along Bozeman’s historic Main Street, looking closely at the storefronts and buildings that chart the town’s growth. Hear stories of figures who shaped the settlement during the era of the 1860s gold rush.

This is one of two included Insight Choice activities in Bozeman. The walk also explores the area’s earlier significance to Indigenous peoples, giving the familiar streets a deeper sense of place.

Explore Bozeman’s Museum of the Rockies, whose natural and cultural history exhibits range from Yellowstone’s landscapes to the peoples and communities of the region. See its celebrated dinosaur fossil collection, including mounted Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons.

This is one of two included Insight Choice activities in Bozeman. Exhibits such as Enduring Peoples and Welcome to Yellowstone Country place Montana’s prehistoric past alongside the human stories of the northern Rockies.

Enjoy a three-course lunch at Bullwinkle’s Saloon and Eatery, a family-owned restaurant in West Yellowstone. A glass of beer or wine is included with the meal.

West Yellowstone has welcomed park visitors since the early twentieth century, and its restaurants remain part of the town’s easygoing gateway character. This hosted local meal offers a more personal pause amid the region’s geysers, forests and wildlife country.

Pause at Gibbon Falls in Yellowstone National Park to watch the Gibbon River tumble over an escarpment of ancient volcanic rock. The viewpoint brings the sound of falling water into a landscape better known for its geysers.

The falls reveal another force that shapes Yellowstone: rivers cutting through terrain formed by past volcanic activity. Look across the wooded valley and notice how water, forest and exposed rock meet at this compact scenic landmark.

Explore Norris Geyser Basin with your Travel Director, walking amid steaming vents, acidic springs and hissing fumaroles in one of Yellowstone’s most thermally active areas. The terrain around Steamboat Geyser shows how changeable this volcanic landscape can be.

Steamboat is the world’s tallest active geyser, although its major eruptions are unpredictable. Even without an eruption, the heat, mineral colours and drifting steam offer a close view of the geothermal forces beneath America’s first national park.

Search Yellowstone’s northern range for wildlife with Local Expert Adam Brubaker, a naturalist, photographer and Yellowstone guide. Scan open country, including the Lamar Valley, for bison and signs of wolves while learning how to read movement across the landscape.

The northern range played a central role in Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction. Adam’s field knowledge brings the park’s living ecosystem into focus, from the behaviour of individual animals to the relationships between predators, grazing herds and habitat. Wildlife sightings cannot be guaranteed.

Walk the Mammoth Hot Springs terraces on a gentle hike through one of Yellowstone’s most distinctive thermal areas. Boardwalks and trails lead past layered limestone formations, flowing mineral water and viewpoints over the surrounding landscape.

Unlike Yellowstone’s geyser basins, Mammoth’s terraces are built as hot water deposits travertine, continually altering their shape and colour. The approximately 2.2-mile Mammoth Terraces Trail offers time to appreciate both the intricate formations and the scale of this active landscape.

Explore Fort Yellowstone in the Mammoth Hot Springs area and see buildings dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Visit the Mail Carrier’s Cabin, the only surviving nineteenth-century log structure in Mammoth.

The fort recalls the years when the US Army administered and protected Yellowstone, before the National Park Service took over in 1916. Its surviving buildings give a tangible sense of the people and practical work behind the park’s early conservation history.

View the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from Artist Point, where the Yellowstone River cuts through vividly coloured canyon walls. The viewpoint frames the Lower Falls as water plunges into the gorge below.

Hydrothermal alteration has helped give the volcanic rock its yellow, orange and red tones. From this vantage, the canyon’s depth and the force of the river come together in one of the park’s defining scenes.

Listen to Charles Yarlott, Jr. share Apsáalooke stories and perspectives on the land now known as Yellowstone. Raised in the Crow language, he brings living cultural knowledge to an encounter often framed only by the park’s natural wonders.

Hear about the Apsáalooke people’s traditions, including horsemanship, and how communities have preserved their identity through profound change. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience centres an Indigenous voice and a continuing connection to the region.

Walk the Midway Geyser Basin boardwalks past Turquoise Pool and Opal Pool, with steam rising from Grand Prismatic Spring. The spring’s broad expanse and rings of colour make this one of Yellowstone’s most recognisable thermal landscapes.

Those colours come in part from heat-loving microorganisms living at different temperatures around the water’s edge. Staying on the designated boardwalk offers a close, safe perspective on the basin’s fragile surfaces and intensely hot water.

Explore the thermal features around Old Faithful in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin. Follow walking routes of varying lengths past steaming ground and colourful pools, and watch for an eruption of the park’s best-known geyser.

Old Faithful’s relatively frequent eruptions have drawn observers since Yellowstone became a national park in 1872, though the interval between displays varies. Your Travel Director helps reveal the wider basin, where the shifting sights and sounds extend well beyond its famous geyser.

Discover Grand Teton National Park’s mountain viewpoints with your Travel Director, taking in the jagged Teton Range above the valley floor. Keep watch across the park’s varied habitats for wildlife such as elk, moose and bison.

The mountains rise sharply above Jackson Hole, creating a striking contrast between granite peaks, forest and open country. Viewpoint stops offer space to study that immense landscape and photograph the features that distinguish Grand Teton from neighbouring Yellowstone.

Enjoy a private lunch at the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s restaurant near Jackson, overlooking the National Elk Refuge. The meal features creatively presented dishes made with seasonal, sustainable and local ingredients.

The refuge setting connects the dining experience to the wildlife landscapes explored throughout the tour. From the restaurant, look out across the valley while sampling a menu that may include dishes such as elk Bolognese or a seasonal vegetarian quiche. Museum gallery entry is not specified.