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5-Day Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Mt. Rushmore Tour from Salt Lake City | Small Group Option

Small group tour (max 13 travelers), or upgradable from the coach bus tour.

Our Price:

Single occupancy $1179/Person Double occupancy $839/Person
Triple occupancy $759/Person Quadruple occupancy $719/Person
Available: Tue (2025/5/20-2025/10/7) Depart from: Salt Lake City, UT
Visit Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, Casper, Crazy Horse, Devils Tower, Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Day 1: Salt Lake City

As you arrive at Salt Lake City International Airport, please take the airport shuttle bus and self check-in the hotel.

Standard Hotel: Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Airport or similar

Meal: Excluded

Day 2: Salt Lake City - Jackson Hole - Grand Teton - Yellowstone (571 miles)

Today we will travel to Jackson Hole. Be sure to visit the Elk Antler Arches Square located in the center of Jackson! Afterwards, we will head to Grand Teton National Park. We will visit Yellowstone National Park in the afternoon, stopping at Grand Prismatic Spring, Old Faithful Geyser, the West Thumb Geyser Basin, Fountain Paint Pot, and many more places. We will spend the night in West Yellowstone.

Famous frontier town, located at the crossing of Grand Teton and Rocky Mountains, it became a heaven for outdoors sports enthusiast. The widely praised Elk Antler Arches Park, with its four arches made with thousands of elk antlers is a must see.

  • Constructed in the early 1960s, the Antler Arches stand at each of the four corners of Jackson's town square. As the name suggests, they were built from the shed antlers of deer, which were intertwined into their current shape.

    Duration: Approx. 1 Hour

Grand Teton National Park is located in the Rocky Mountains, Northwest Wyoming. Grand Teton National Park is noted for its stunning mountain vistas, its shimmering alpine lakes and its abundant wildlife.

Duration: Approx. 1 Hour

The largest, oldest, and most famous national park displays a fascinating scenery of hot springs, geysers, canyons, waterfalls, and nature everywhere you look!

Duration: Approx. 3 Hours

  • The third largest hot spring in the world, the Grand Prismatic Hot Spring gets its color from bacteria around its rim that feed off of the mineral-rich water. In the summer months, the hot spring is a vivid red-orange shade.

    Duration: Approx. 40 Minutes

  • Old Faithful is a cone geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. It is one of the park's most well-known natural features, and is famous for its predictability. It generally erupts every 91 minutes.

    Duration: Approx. 1 Hour

  • The West Thumb Geyser Basin is the largest geyser basin at Yellowstone Lake, and an impressive area of geothermal activity that contains hot springs, mud pots, and geysers-- some of which are even in the lake itself.

    Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes

  • Fountain Paint Pot, heated by the region's underground hot springs, F.P.P is half hot spring, half mud basin. The spring releases natural shades of red and yellow because of the oxidation of iron in the soil.

  • Yellowstone Lake isn't just the largest single body of water in Yellowstone National Park, but the largest elevated freshwater lake in the US. The lake contains several underwater hot springs that melt its otherwise thick ice sheets in the winter.

Standard Hotel: Dude & Roundup Or Travelers Lodge Or similar

Breakfast: Included|Lunch: Excluded|Dinner: Excluded

Day 3: Yellowstone - Sheridan (251 miles)

Today, we will travel to Yellowstone National Park, home to the world's largest super volcano and over 10,000 fascinating geothermal features like Norris Geyser, Upper Falls, Artist Point, Mud Volcano and more! We will spend the night in Gillette, WY.

The largest, oldest, and most famous national park displays a fascinating scenery of hot springs, geysers, canyons, waterfalls, and nature everywhere you look!

Duration: Approx. 4 Hours

  • Located near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, the Fishing Bridge is a great location to spot the native Cutthroat trout. There is an RV park of the same name nearby.

  • The Mud Volcano blew itself apart in the early 20th century, but visitors can still see the impressive crater and other geothermal features in the surrounding area, such as the Mud Cauldron, Black Dragon's Caldron, and Dragon's Mouth Spring.

    Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes

  • A large, sub-alpine valley in Yellowstone National Park straddling the Yellowstone River between Yellowstone Falls and Yellowstone Lake. The valley is well known as one of the best locations to view wildlife in Yellowstone.

  • This impressive gap in the earth in the first large canyon on the Yellowstone River. It is 24 miles long, and can reach a quarter-mile in depth and 3/4 a mile in width. It is gorgeously colored.

  • Located a quarter-mile upstream of the larger Lower Falls, the Upper Yellowstone River Falls plunge 109 feet down an eroded lava cliff into the basin below. The area below the falls has been subject to heavier erosion than above.

    Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes

  • The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in Wyoming are the largest by volume in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, and they stand more than 300 feet tall-- almost twice as high as Niagara Falls.

  • Named after the famous sketches of the waterfalls by Thomas Moran (but not actually the location where the sketched were done) this beautiful location showcases one of the most famous views in Yellowstone National Park.

    Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes

  • Yellowstone National Park is full of areas like this - geyser basins - large, open areas where geothermic pressure from below the ground's surface force up various geysers and springs. The Norris Basin is one of the more accessible.

    Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes

  • This hot spring in the Upper geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is famous for it's bright red-orange and blue-green coloring. These colors come from the bacteria which inhabit the geyser's interior.

    Duration: Approx. 20 Minutes

Standard Hotel: Best Western or similar

Meal: Excluded

Day 4: Sheridan - Devils Tower - Mt. Rushmore - Crazy Horse - Casper (424 miles)

In the morning, we will drive to Devil's Tower, the country's first national monument. Next, we will head to iconic Mount Rushmore, followed by the Crazy Horse National Monument. Later on, we will spend the night in Casper.

The first declared United States National Monument. It'is an igneous intrusion or laccolith located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County. A monolithic rock formation that rises 1,267 feet above the surrounding land and was once the neck of an active volcano.

  • This massive monolith in the Black Hills of Wyoming was the nation's first national monument, anointed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. In recent years, climbing the rock has become popular. The stone column is considered sacred by many Native Americans.

    Duration: Approx. 1 Hour 30 Minutes

This famous United States monument in the Black Hills of western South Dakota depicts the busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The 60 feet tall statues are carved right into the side of the mountains.

Duration: Approx. 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Crazy Horse Memorial is the world's largest sculpture-in-progress, and frequent drilling and mountain blasts make each visit unique. When completed, Crazy Horse Memorial will stand 563 feet tall by 641 feet long.

  • This monument, controversial in the Native American community, has been under construction for over 60 years. If it is completed as planned, it would be the largest sculpture in the entire world, at a monstrous 563 feet high and 641 feet wide.

    Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes

Standard Hotel: AmericInn by Wyndham or similar

Breakfast: Included|Lunch: Excluded|Dinner: Excluded

Day 5: Casper - Salt Lake City (408 miles)

Drive to Independent Rock State Historic Site this morning, then we will head to Salt Lake City, where we will visit the Utah State Capitol, the most expensive, luxurious state house in the U.S. We will take a look and follow the Mormon Missionary sisters’ lead to see the virtue kingdom at the LDS church to learn about the history and teachings of the LDS Church.

Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is also called "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture. In 2010, Casper was named the highest-ranked family-friendly small city in the West, and ranked eighth overall in the nation in Forbes magazine's list of "the best small cities to raise a family".

  • This granite monolith sits in the Independence Rock State Historic Site in central Wyoming. The rock served as an important landmark for those travelling west via the Oregon Trail in the middle of the 19th century.

    Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes

Utah's gorgeous capital city sits amidst the mountains of the American Southwest on the shores of the breathtaking Great Salt Lake. The city is steeped in history and architecture in addition to wondrous vistas and scenery.

  • The home of all of the governmental processes for the state of Utah, the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The building is done in the ornate neoclassical revival style, purposefully reminiscent of the nation capitol in DC.

    Duration: Approx. 30 Minutes

  • Approximately ten acres in size, Temple Square is the center of religious activity for the Church of Latter Day Saints, housing the Temple and Tabernacle that are central to the religion.

    Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes

Breakfast: Included|Lunch: Excluded|Dinner: Excluded

 

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