Dude Ranchin Yellowstone and Glacier Roundup 2012
A 10-Day Trafalgar Tours tour starting from $2,499
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Cities Visited: Welcome to Cowboy Country with this unique Family Experience. Say ‘Howdy!’ with a trip to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and discover exactly what it’s like to be a cowboy. Enjoy the awe-inspiring Yellowstone National Park with its turquoise hot springs and boiling mud pots. Kids will love earning their Junior Ranger Badge, while learning all about Yellowstone wildlife on a guided walk with a naturalist. In Glacier National Park you’ll be impressed by the incredible lakes and waterfalls - the remnants of the last Ice Age! |
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Kick-off Party with your Travel Director in Billings. (KP)9 full breakfasts. (FB)1 picnic lunch. (L)1 three-course dinner. (D)Highlight Dinner with drinks in Cody. (HD)Chuckwagon Barbeque Highlight Dinner with drinks at 320 Guest Ranch. (HD)Pizza Party Highlight Dinner with drinks in Whitefish. (HD)Farewell Dinner with drinks in Spokane. (FD)
First Class Travel Highlights
First class hotel accommodation featuring twin rooms and private facilitiesAll hotel service charges and tips, baggage handling fees and local taxes includedTravel by luxury air-conditioned coachThe services of one of our professional Travel Directors throughout your journeyQualified Local Guides in Athens and Delphi.Souvenir Photo Capture treasured memories of your trip with a complimentary group photo taken at a landmark location.A stylish wallet, travel documents, keepsake booklet and mapJust 4 Kids Surprise Pack.Airport transfers are provided on Day 1 and Day 10.Capture treasured memories of your trip with a complimentary group photo taken at a landmark location.
Welcome to Cowboy Country! Take your complimentary transfer to the hotel and say “Howdy!†to your Tour Director, who’ll be on hand this afternoon to answer any questions. At 6 p.m., look out for the rest of your posse at the hotel and join a Kick-off Party for your adventure.
Day 2: BILLINGS - CODY
Git goin’ and follow in the tracks of Lewis and Clark, the West’s greatest explorers, with a visit to the Pompey’s Pillar National Monument. Named for the son of Sacagawea, Clark’s native guide, this 150-foot butte was inscribed with Clark’s name – the only piece of physical evidence of the explorers’ famed expedition back in 1806. Circle back to Cody, home to the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody, known ‘round the world for his stupendous travelling Wild West Show. Visit the top-notch Buffalo Bill Historical Center, showcasing not only the great showman, but presenting great exhibits on how the Plains Indians lived and an amazing collection of firearms. Keep your Wild West spirit kickin’ with a Highlight Dinner at Buffalo Bill’s Old Irma Hotel -- actually owned by yours truly and named for his daughter. There’s more fun to be had tonight when you step out for the Cody Night Rodeo (through Aug.) or to a foot-stompin’ cowboy music review (in Sept.).(Full Breakfast / Highlight Dinner)
Day 3: CODY - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Leave the Big Horn Basin for another big day – you’re off to Yellowstone, America’s first national park. Look out for herds of bison and grazing elk and listen for the roar of Yellowstone Falls. Stroll the boardwalks and watch for spouting geysers and steaming vents, peer into the turquoise hot springs, and listen to the gurgling boiling mudpots. Keep an eye on your watch for the next nearly-hourly appearance of Old Faithful, shooting up to 180 feet high! Kids, don’t miss signing up for the Yellowstone Junior Ranger Program, where you’ll learn all about the park’s amazing wildlife and all this geothermal energy business.(Full Breakfast / Dinner)
Day 4: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - 320 GUEST RANCH (2 NIGHTS)
Can you tell how to find a bear or what it’s just been eating? Take a walk with a naturalist and find out all kinds of cool insights about Yellowstone’s wildlife. Keep on the lookout for moose, elk and black bears as you leave the park today, but if you haven’t spotted the elusive grizzly bear or a wolf yet, don’t worry; you’ll see them at your next stop, The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone. Head on out into Montana’s Big Sky Country and settle in for big fun over the next couple of days at an 1898 homestead-turned guest ranch. Take a hayride out to the river for a rib-stickin’ Chuckwagon Highlight Dinner.(Full Breakfast / Highlight Dinner)
Day 5: 320 GUEST RANCH
No sleepin’ in today when there’s so many fun choices: join a white-water raft trip or gentle float trip down the Gallatin river; or saddle up and ride with a real-life horse wrangler in the Montana wilderness! Then, after a picnic lunch, the whole rest of the day is up to you. Maybe take a hike along one of the many nature trails at the ranch, learn fly casting at the fish pond or do some fly-fishing right on the river, or perhaps skedaddle out to the ski resort town of Big Sky.(Full Breakfast / Lunch)
Day 6: 320 GUEST RANCH - HELENA
Head out of the hills and travel through the Valley of the Flowers where the great Native tribes once roamed – as well as the ancient dinosaurs! At The Museum of the Rockies, you’ll be amazed at the gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex skull - it’s the world’s largest! Get back on the trail of Lewis and Clark, stopping at Missouri Headwaters State Park to see the source of the Missouri River. Then, board a boat to cruise through the towering limestone cliffs of the Gates of the Mountains. Look straight up to spot the Bighorn sheep scrambling up the rocks. Kick back on your own on Last Chance Gulch – main street Helena, the friendly former gold-mining town.(Full Breakfast)
Day 7: HELENA - WHITEFISH (2 NIGHTS)
When first hearing about smokejumpers – parachuters that drop out of the sky to fight fires in America’s remote forests and prairies – you might think they’re just made up characters for the movies. But their daring jobs are for real as you’ll see during your visit to the country’s largest smokejumper base and Visitor Center in Missoula. Get the inside scoop on what it takes for this demanding occupation, including a visit to the Smokejumper loft and ready room (seasonal). In Pablo, listen to the wisdom of a tribal elder and learn about the life of Salish, Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai tribes with a guided tour of The People’s Center. Arrive in the old railroad town of Whitefish.(Full Breakfast)
Day 8: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK SIGHTSEEING
Only 25 glaciers remain in spectacular Glacier National Park, still slowly melting since the last Ice Age and the most fun way to see the amazing lakes and waterfalls left behind is by hopping aboard one of the park’s original renovated red buses. As you “jam†up the Going-to-the-Sun Road, look out for giant white mountain goats and the Continental Divide. Head back to Whitefish to browse its main street shops for that perfect cowboy souvenir; then round up your compadres for a Pizza Party Highlight Dinner.(Full Breakfast / Highlight Dinner)
Day 9: WHITEFISH - SPOKANE
Bid ‘so long’ to Montana as you travel through Flathead country into Idaho. Stretch your legs and explore the resort town at the great lake of Coeur d' Alene, once a French and Native American trade center. Cross the border into Washington State. Round up your gang for a special tour and Farewell Dinner at the Steam Plant Grill, a historic steam plant converted to a restaurant. Check out the original boilers and catwalks – you can even get inside the 225-foot-tall smokestack!(Full Breakfast / Farewell Dinner)
Day 10: DEPART SPOKANE
Wish your pardners ‘Happy Trails’ as your great Western round-up ends with a transfer to Spokane Airport.(Full Breakfast)
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Pompey s Pillar National Monument See Native American petroglyphs and the only physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark expedition.Cody Visit the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and take in a rodeo or Cowboy Music review in season.Yellowstone National Park See Old Faithful and Yellowstone Falls; become a Junior Ranger.West Yellowstone Visit The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center.320 Guest Ranch Horseback ride or take a floating or rafting trip on the Gallatin River; fish or hike and enjoy various ranch activities at this pleasant Montana guest ranch.Bozeman Drop your jaw when you see the world’s largest T-rex skull at The Museum of the Rockies.Three Forks See the source of the Missouri River, named by Lewis and Clark.Gates of the Mountains Take a boat cruise and look for mountain goats along these towering limestone cliffs.Missoula Learn about the daring work of firefighting smokejumpers at the Smokejumper Visitor Center (seasonal).Pablo Visit the People's Center.Glacier National Park Cruise the Going-to-the-Sun Road aboard the historic Red Buses through Logan Pass, past the Continental Divide.Coeur d Alene Explore the beautiful lakefront in this resort town.Audio Headsets For all guided visits and included sightseeing.
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