Thursday, October 29, 2009

An Exciting Snowmobile Cruise In Yellowstone

By George Ross

A perfect time and place for a holiday tour would be spending a winter weekend in Yellowstone National Park. These wondrous natural reserve is basking sparkling under a heavy blanket of glistening snow and is beckoning everyone to enjoy the ice blanketed wildlife.

Alive with wildlife under clear sapphire skies, the area's 10,000 hydrothermal features provides a welcome contrast to it's otherwise icy and cold terrain.There is definitely no other safer, comfortable and suitable way to cruise the landscape than by a snowmobile. Just remember to suit up yourself in insulated snow suits, gloves, boots and helmet before you embark on the tour.

The tour will usually start at the south entrance of the reserve. It kicks off with a safety orientation, and you can be off on your snowmobile on the wide groomed roads of the the Yellowstone Park. You can stop for lunch at Old Faithful, and then you can go on with your rig and cruise along the banks of the Madison River. While on the banks, you can stop and view the thundering herd of wild bison that stay in the area during the winter. After the first day tour, you can exit through the west entrance and retire at the Stagecoach Inn which is a historic hotel at the center of all activities in West Yellowstone, Montana.

You might want to check out the Grizzly Discovery Center in West Yellowstone for day two. The bears are consistently fed even on winter so they do not hibernate. The center also maintains wolves that are delightfully active and visible to tourists. You can then reenter the park on your snowmobile and head north. Here you will pass the steaming geysers of the Norris Basin. You will have ample time to enjoy and view the Park Service Interpretative displays and the thermal area at Mammoth Hot Springs. After wards on your rig, you can coast along the banks of the Gibbon River that will take you to your nights lodging in Gardiner, Montana.

As you face day three, you would probably think that you have viewed everything the park has to offer, but you can't be more mistaken. The culminating day of the tour will take you to the frozen waterfalls of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone - and adventure you don't want to miss. It also provides for big game observations and breathtaking high country scenery. You will be traveling past the Hayden Valley which many tourists and snowmobile drivers consider to be the highlight of the whole tour. Opportunities to take awesome photos are just endless. The tour continues along the shores of Yellowstone Lake which will take you back to the south entrance where the tour started. From there you will be taking a conventional ride through the Grand Teton National park en route to Jackson. That's how the tour is going to end.

A lot of snowmobile owners find the Yellowstone Tour an excellent choice for a winter holiday excursion. The majestic landscape and exciting glimpses of wildlife compliments the wild exhilarating snowmobile rush. All of the elements combined makes for a perfect concoction for an adventure in the icy wild.

A snowmobile can be enjoyed not only for a fun and crazy ride but also to cruise in places where you come face to face with mother nature's wondrous art in all it's glory.

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