Rockies & Yellowstone BUD

Day 1: Denver

Visit Larimer Square, the State Capitol, Four Mile Historic Park and LoDo (Lower Downtown) home to some of the city’s earliest buildings.

Day 2: Denver

Explore Garden of the Gods, known for its mesmerizing red rock formations, some reaching up to 300 feet in height.

Day 3: Cheyenne

Distance to destination: 160 km Head to Rocky Mountain National Park. You will discover the majestic scenery of the valleys and mountains with over 60 peaks. It encompasses a diverse range of ecosystems, including high mountain peaks, alpine lakes, meadows, and forests.

Day 4: Rapid City

Distance to destination: 470 km Visit Mount Rushmore where the heads of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T. Roosevelt are sculpted in the granite rock. Continue to Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, the world’s largest mountain carving still in progress.

Day 5: Rapid City

Explore Badlands National Park with its rich fossil beds and acres of sharply eroded pinnacles and spires. Bison and bighorn sheep roam one of the largest prairies in the US.

Day 6: Buffalo

Distance to destination: 340 km Arrival in the western town of Deadwood in South Dakota known for its wild reputation in the 19th century and the final resting place of legendary figures, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Discover the monolithic Devil’s Tower, a 60-million-year-old volcanic chimney rising dramatically 1,267 ft above the surrounding terrain.

Day 7: Cody

Distance to destination: 275 km Drive through Bighorn National Forest in the Black Hills with its pine, spruce, and fir trees. Continue to Cody, a charming town known for its Old West history, where Buffalo Bill once lived.

Day 8: West Yellowstone

Distance to destination: 240 km Visit Yellowstone, a majestic national park where you may see grizzly bears, buffalo, deer, elk and longhorn sheep. You will delight in the splendid waterfalls in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.

Day 9: West Yellowstone

On your tour through the park, you may see the eruption of Old Faithful, the best known of the park’s 300 geysers, along with other geological marvels like Mammoth Hot Springs and Turquoise Pool

Day 10: Jackson

Distance to destination: 210 km Leave for Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Stop at Jenny Lake and the Chapel of the Transfiguration in the historic district. Enjoy a superb view of the Teton Range that rises abruptly to tower 7,000 ft above the valley floor and frames a majestic landscape of lakes, glaciers and extensive forests.

Day 11: Salt Lake City

Distance to destination: 450 km Explore Jackson, a typical Far West city with wood houses and cowboy bars. Continue to Salt Lake City, a city founded by the Mormons and capital of genealogy research.

Day 12: Salt Lake City

Visit Temple Square where you can appreciate the Mormon temple from the outside. Stop near the State Capitol, a Corinthian-style building and seat of the state of Utah’s federated government.

Day 13: Salt Lake City

End of tour. Return the car (airport).