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Yellowstone Continues to Celebrate the Return of the Historic Yellow Buses

View Yellowstone from the perspective of early park visitors by touring in the luxury of a refurbished “Historic Yellow Bus.” New tours and departure locations listed below. Please call 866-GEYSERLAND (866-439-7375) for more information and reservations.

Click the links below for operating dates and rates or scroll down the page for a description of each tour.

Historic Yellow Bus Tours
Operating Dates and Rates

All Day Tours

Partial Day Tours

Photo Safaris

Evening Tours 

All Day Tours

Where Gush the Geysers

Departs from: Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge RV Park, Canyon Lodge, Bridge Bay Campground

Ever wonder why geysers erupt? Or what causes the colors in hot springs? How do mud pots form? Yellowstone has more geothermal features than anywhere else in the world! Here's a chance for you to experience these natural wonders up close. We'll visit several of the Park's prime thermal areas including the Fountain Paint Pots, and the Midway, West Thumb and Old Faithful Geyser Basins where you'll have a chance to get answers to your questions.
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Teton Vista Rendezvous

Departs from: Old Faithful Inn, Grant Village

Experience three parks in one day!  Witness jewel-like lakes, rugged mountains, placid meadows, and wonderful wildlife.  Find out about these areas and their inhabitants.  You'll stop at the historic Menor's Ferry area by the Snake River for lunch at Dornan's (not included in the price of the fare).  If weather is not conducive to sightseeing stops there are plans to visit cultural sites or the Colter Bay Native Arts Museum. 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place.

West Yellowstone Circle of Fire

Departs from: Four locations in West Yellowstone, MT

This tour travels along the lower portion of Yellowstone's figure eight road system. The major sights include the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins, Yellowstone Lake, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. A lunch stop (location varies) is scheduled on this tour. Lunch is not included in tour price.

View Dates of Operation and Rates 

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Partial Day Tours

Across the Northern Range (3 hour tour)

Departs from: Mammoth Hotel, Canyon Lodge

Enjoy expansive views as we travel the Grand Loop Road across Yellowstone's Northern Range.  Upon arrival at Roosevelt corrals, you'll transfer for a one-hour ride in a replica Tally-ho stagecoach, whose predecessors carried visitors through the wonders of Yellowstone a hundred years ago. 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 2 paying passengers for tour to take place. 

The Washburn Expedition (6-8 hour tour)

(May 30 - Aug. 16 in a large bus, Aug. 17 - Sept. 19 in a Historic Yellow Bus)
 

Departs from: Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge RV Park, Canyon Lodge, Bridge Bay Marina
 

General Henry Washburn led an expedition to Yellowstone in 1870. Today we offer a modern-day version of Washburn's trek with our own Washburn Expedition.  The tour will include the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Dunraven Pass.  Experience the wildlife, geology and breathtaking scenery that Washburn first experienced (without the saddle sores.) 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place. 

Wake up to Wildlife (morning 4 hour tour)

Departs from: Mammoth Hotel, Roosvelt Lodge, Canyon Lodge

The early morning hours and Lamar Valley's broad vistas provide great opportunities to spot wildlife grazing or hunting on the open hillsides.  If the wildlife is lying low, the spectacular scenery is sure to please.  A continental breakfast and beverages are provided.  
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 2 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Firehole Basin Adventure (3 hour tour)

Departs from: Old Faithful Inn

This cool three-hour adventure will take you to where it's hot and steamy.  Your guide will show you all four major types of geothermal features; geysers, hot springs, fumaroles and mud pots.  You'll leave with a new appreciation and understanding of Yellowstone's underground plumbing. 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 2 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Geyser Gazers(1 1/2 hour tour)

Departs from: Old Faithful Inn

Three different tour opportunities

Join us for a 1½-hour adventure in the Fire Hole, a name bestowed by the Mountain Men of the early 19 Century to designate the valley with all the th steam rising that looked like smoke.
Departing north from Old Faithful Inn, you’ll enjoy expansive views in the Historic Yellow Bus (top down if the weather’s nice!) as we travel the Grand Loop Road to take in the sights along Firehole Lake Drive, where Firehole Spring, Surprise Pool, Great Fountain Geyser, and other wonders lie adjacent to the road. From here, this tour plans its major walking stops at:

Black Sand and Biscuit Basins: Black Sand Basin is home to active geysers Cliff and Spouter, beautiful Sunset Lake and Rainbow and Emerald Pools, and the historic Handkerchief Pool, where early visitors once tossed in their handkerchiefs to allow the hot spring to launder them (a practice not permitted today). At Biscuit Basin, most of the biscuits (rock formations named from their shape) were destroyed when Sapphire Pool erupted more than a hundred feet high following the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake, but it is still a spring of stunning beauty, and active geysers such as Jewel and Rusty play nearby.

Midway Geyser Basin: Home to the Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest hot spring in Earth’s Western Hemisphere, and Excelsior Geyser, which has views into its deep cyan-tinted depths that belie its history as Yellowstone’s most violent, explosive geyser. 

Fountain Paint Pot Area: All four of the major types of thermal features can be found along its ½-mile loop boardwalk, and your congenial driver-guide will explain the simplicity and complexity of the various features as you walk. Silex Spring, the Fountain Paint Pots, Red Spouter, and Clepsydra Geyser (almost always erupting!) are highlights, and if we’re fortunate we may catch Fountain Geyser in eruption as well.

Come along for a great trip through the mists of hot springs and time.
Operating Dates and Rates 

This tour requires a minimum of 2 paying passengers for tour to take place.  

A Village of Hot Springs & History (1 hour tour)

Departs from: Old Faithful Inn

Old Faithful Village is almost as historic as Yellowstone itself.  This 45-minute tour allows our visitors the opportunity to experience the historic structures and trails around the village.  The tour will take in such sights as the historic Howard Eaton Trail, Frank Haynes photo shop (built in 1897), the old bear feeding grounds and more. 
Operating Dates and Rates  

This tour requires a minimum of 2 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Evening Tours 

Lake Butte Sunset Tour (evening 2 hour tour)

Departs from: Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge RV Park

Enjoy the scenic shores of Yellowstone Lake and breathtaking views from the Lake Butte Overlook.  It's a ride through history and nature, as tales from the past are interwoven with sights of the present. 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Evening Wildlife Encounters (evening 3 hour tour)

Departs from: Mammoth Hotel, Canyon Lodge

If the wildlife is around, the combination of early evening hours and a Historic Yellow Bus creates a perfect opportunity for wildlife watching.  If it isn't a summer evening ride with the top down and a guide who knows the significance and history of the Northern Range is an experience in itself. 
Operating Dates and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for tour to take place.

Lamar Valley Wildlife Excursion (4 hour tour) 

*Departs from: Bridge Bay Campground, Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge RV Park, Canyon Lodge

The Northern Range, which includes Lamar Valley, provides perfect habitat for bears, wolves, elk bison, pronghorn and bighorn sheep. Find out what makes this area so popular with animals and people.

View Dates of Operation and Rates

This tour requires a minimum of 3 paying passengers for the tour to take place.

*June 13 - Aug. 15 in a large bus, Aug. 16 - Sept. 19 in a Historic Yellow Bus