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Montana: Exploring Big Sky Country
featuring Yellowstone & Glacier National Parks
10 DAYS
$5,999
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*Rate is per person, land only, double occupancy, tour inclusions and available options may vary based on departure date.
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Step outside, take a deep breath in, and look towards the mountains - you’re in the big sky country of Montana, now. Explore both the Northern and Southern Loops of Yellowstone National Park, and visit Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon, and more. Venture to Helena, the “Queen City of the Rockies.” Cruise on the Missouri River through the Gates of the Mountains, named by legendary explorers Lewis and Clark. Spend time in the mountain town of St. Mary Village before heading in to explore Glacier National Park. Take an adventurous white water rafting trip or a calm, scenic float down the Flathead River. Meet a descendant of the last Kootenai chief and learn about the importance of the land in native life. Get a glimpse into the heroic and dangerous life of a Smokejumper. A land of wilderness, adventure, and beauty, Montana is waiting for you.
Your Tour Includes
- 6 Handpicked Accommodations
- 15 Meals
- 2 Choice on Tour Options
Included Highlights
- Yellowstone
- Old Faithful
- Mammoth Hot Springs
- Yellowstone Grand Canyon
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Your Tour at a Glance
Getting Prepared
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Accommodations
AC Hotel Bozeman Downtown
Night 1
The Ridgeline Hotel at Yellowstone
Nights 2-3
DoubleTree by Hilton Helena Downtown
Nights 4-5
Great Bear Lodge at St. Mary Village
Night 6
Grouse Mountain Lodge Whitefish
Nights 7-8
Holiday Inn Missoula Downtown
Night 9
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The sights were awesome, saw lots of bison, would like to have seen more wildlife!! Weather was unseasonably warm very agreeable. Had a great time Sharon
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White water rafting museums and Rosd to ge SunDon Rider
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Nice variety of national parks museums and side excursions white water raftingDiane Rider
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Wonderful trip and excellent tour guide
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Great tour! Eric the tour manager was very knowledgeable about the area and history of the area. I think we covered the entire state which is so beautiful. The accommodation were comfortable some with a flair of the area. Food in every place was delicious. There were a few memorable tour experiences some of which were the Red Bus tour, Glacier National Park, and whitewater rafting. I would definitely recommend Collette and this tour of Montana to all my friends. Montana is a state of nature’s beauty.
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Yellowstone. Even though we visited some of the basic sites on our National Park Tour with Collette several years ago, Eric took us to some very amazing sites on this trip. Great Manager best of all Trip Managers of all our previous Collette Trips. Glacial National Park is Just amazing.Ronald Kunda
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Overall a nice trip with a small group. Saw a good portion of Montana. Well planned and organized. Meals supplied were good.Reed Smith
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Enjoyed the scenery, Yellowstone, the Buffalo jump, red bus tour, bird woman falls, museum of mountain flying, smoke jumper tourTherese Colgan
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Could of used more information on dining at different stops when we were on our on to find restaurants. Yellowstone was beautiful, Glacier lake was great but too crowded at this time of year. Had a hard time pulling over to see different sights.
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Saw wonderful sites but our tour guide never had any written itinerary or even an oral explanation of how the timing of the day would go. This was very upsetting.
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Touring the Fire Jumpers facility and listening to a fire jumper explaining their duties. Festinating!
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Tour guide and bus driver were greatRonald Sims
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Great tour, good guide and great bus driver
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Great trip , good tour guide and great bus driver
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This was our fourth tour with Collette. They handle everything from start to finish perfectly. We really enjoyed the smaller group with explorations.
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It was an excellent tour! beautiful Scenery, overall nice hotels, good food choices, excellent educational guide, enjoyed the Lewis & Clark info, boat ride and float trip. , (
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Nice accommodations, great food and superior guide/Bernie Kay Brown
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Beautiful trip breataking sceneryRobert Mcculloch
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Most beautiful trip we've ever been onRosemary Mcculloch
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Misleading tour itinerary with no agent to greet us and no Welcome Board. Experienced park ranger tour guide arrived end of Day 1. Only one city tour (Helena) with most hotels far from city center or not up to standard expected. Had to use Uber (not cheap) to visit Museum of the Rockies (Bozeman) and Door Dash for $30 pizza dinner in Helena on Labor Day as Double-Tree hotel and nearly all restaurants were closed. Yellowstone & Glacier Nat'l Park views were hazy from wildfires. Saw only a few bison, 2 elk, and no bear. Saw no animals on "Scenic" 2 hour boat "option" which was actually a pontoon raft sitting in cold water up to your ankles. Either option was pre-paid so hard to skip. Upon arrival, transfer vehicle had a huge horizontal cracked front windshield "to be fixed on Friday". What a way to start. Very memorable trip for all the wrong reasons. Just glad to go home.Barbara Brown
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Very well planned. From the Places we visited, the tour manager and guide, the tour was excellently donePeter Forness
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Joel Hoadley was excellent, excellent. He was knowledgeable, thoughtful, clear voice (easy to understand), interesting, took care of everyone (several seniors) and great to be with. Joel recognized my birthday and made the day special. Josh (bus driver) was excellent, excellent. He was an excellent driver (felt very safe), thoughtful, took care of everyone (several seniors) and great to be with.Hubert Stoy
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IT was a great experience. Joel made it so interesting. Got away from all the commercial side.Patricia McTee
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We had a very knowledgeable, experienced and enthusiastic guide. Her knowledge of Yellowstone based on her work there gave us a very good insight into geology, animal life, forestry and the Park Service responsibilities. There were only a few tours that could be changed or eliminated. The "Gates of Heaven" boat ride was too long, too hot and too crowded. One other tour worth mentioning is the luncheon and information session given by a Native American woman. After reading about her family and their success we think it would have been so informative for her to talk about the family businesses - they own and run hotels and other accommodations on Glacier Lake. We'd like to learn about how they got started in business, what hurdles they had to overcome, etc.
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Excellent tour, excellent tour manage, a beautiful part of our country that you must see!
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Beautiful country, friendly people, fun destinations.Barbara Tankus
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Great tour, tour manager, driver, and travel mates. My best tour with Collette. Visiting the State Capital on a Sunday, the visit to the Cathedral and to St. Ignatius were perfect. Also the lunch and history lesson at the Camp ground. The barbecue dinner with the raft crew. And all the huckleberry ice cream. Just loved it!!
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Well organized. It was also the best group of travelers I’ve ever been with.
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Visiting Glacier National Park was wonderful!
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We were unaware that we were the maiden tour. There were a lot of "kinks" in the plans. Hotels were just ok, food was just ok. It was a little too slow for us.
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Yellowstone was incredible - the numerous hot springs and giesers plus the bison everywhere made for a very interesting landscape. Old Faithful was right on time!lJudith Heile
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Booked this tour to see Montana and Glacier National Park. The highlight was the Red Jammer Tour on the Going to the Sun Road starting at St. Mary's East Entrance and ending at the Lake McDonald Lodge. Weather and scenery were breathtaking. Other highlights of the tour were seeing Yellowstone for my second time, cruising the Missouri River at the Gates of the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Buffalo Jump and learning more about the Lewis & Clark Expedition. My first Collette Tour. While the Tour Manager was good with tour logistics, he was very light on providing information about where we were going and information about the locations we visited. A bit of a disappointment! What truly made this a good tour were the lovely and well traveled people who made up the tour group.
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The sights were awesome, saw lots of bison, would like to have seen more wildlife!! Weather was unseasonably warm very agreeable. Had a great time Sharon
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Wonderful trip and excellent tour guide
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Nice variety of national parks museums and side excursions white water raftingDiane Rider
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White water rafting museums and Rosd to ge SunDon Rider
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Great tour! Eric the tour manager was very knowledgeable about the area and history of the area. I think we covered the entire state which is so beautiful. The accommodation were comfortable some with a flair of the area. Food in every place was delicious. There were a few memorable tour experiences some of which were the Red Bus tour, Glacier National Park, and whitewater rafting. I would definitely recommend Collette and this tour of Montana to all my friends. Montana is a state of nature’s beauty.
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Yellowstone. Even though we visited some of the basic sites on our National Park Tour with Collette several years ago, Eric took us to some very amazing sites on this trip. Great Manager best of all Trip Managers of all our previous Collette Trips. Glacial National Park is Just amazing.Ronald Kunda
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Overall a nice trip with a small group. Saw a good portion of Montana. Well planned and organized. Meals supplied were good.Reed Smith
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Could of used more information on dining at different stops when we were on our on to find restaurants. Yellowstone was beautiful, Glacier lake was great but too crowded at this time of year. Had a hard time pulling over to see different sights.
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Enjoyed the scenery, Yellowstone, the Buffalo jump, red bus tour, bird woman falls, museum of mountain flying, smoke jumper tourTherese Colgan
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Saw wonderful sites but our tour guide never had any written itinerary or even an oral explanation of how the timing of the day would go. This was very upsetting.
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Touring the Fire Jumpers facility and listening to a fire jumper explaining their duties. Festinating!
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Tour guide and bus driver were greatRonald Sims
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Great tour, good guide and great bus driver
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Great trip , good tour guide and great bus driver
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This was our fourth tour with Collette. They handle everything from start to finish perfectly. We really enjoyed the smaller group with explorations.
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Nice accommodations, great food and superior guide/Bernie Kay Brown
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It was an excellent tour! beautiful Scenery, overall nice hotels, good food choices, excellent educational guide, enjoyed the Lewis & Clark info, boat ride and float trip. , (
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Beautiful trip breataking sceneryRobert Mcculloch
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Most beautiful trip we've ever been onRosemary Mcculloch
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Misleading tour itinerary with no agent to greet us and no Welcome Board. Experienced park ranger tour guide arrived end of Day 1. Only one city tour (Helena) with most hotels far from city center or not up to standard expected. Had to use Uber (not cheap) to visit Museum of the Rockies (Bozeman) and Door Dash for $30 pizza dinner in Helena on Labor Day as Double-Tree hotel and nearly all restaurants were closed. Yellowstone & Glacier Nat'l Park views were hazy from wildfires. Saw only a few bison, 2 elk, and no bear. Saw no animals on "Scenic" 2 hour boat "option" which was actually a pontoon raft sitting in cold water up to your ankles. Either option was pre-paid so hard to skip. Upon arrival, transfer vehicle had a huge horizontal cracked front windshield "to be fixed on Friday". What a way to start. Very memorable trip for all the wrong reasons. Just glad to go home.Barbara Brown
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Very well planned. From the Places we visited, the tour manager and guide, the tour was excellently donePeter Forness
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Joel Hoadley was excellent, excellent. He was knowledgeable, thoughtful, clear voice (easy to understand), interesting, took care of everyone (several seniors) and great to be with. Joel recognized my birthday and made the day special. Josh (bus driver) was excellent, excellent. He was an excellent driver (felt very safe), thoughtful, took care of everyone (several seniors) and great to be with.Hubert Stoy
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IT was a great experience. Joel made it so interesting. Got away from all the commercial side.Patricia McTee
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We had a very knowledgeable, experienced and enthusiastic guide. Her knowledge of Yellowstone based on her work there gave us a very good insight into geology, animal life, forestry and the Park Service responsibilities. There were only a few tours that could be changed or eliminated. The "Gates of Heaven" boat ride was too long, too hot and too crowded. One other tour worth mentioning is the luncheon and information session given by a Native American woman. After reading about her family and their success we think it would have been so informative for her to talk about the family businesses - they own and run hotels and other accommodations on Glacier Lake. We'd like to learn about how they got started in business, what hurdles they had to overcome, etc.
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Excellent tour, excellent tour manage, a beautiful part of our country that you must see!
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Beautiful country, friendly people, fun destinations.Barbara Tankus
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Great tour, tour manager, driver, and travel mates. My best tour with Collette. Visiting the State Capital on a Sunday, the visit to the Cathedral and to St. Ignatius were perfect. Also the lunch and history lesson at the Camp ground. The barbecue dinner with the raft crew. And all the huckleberry ice cream. Just loved it!!
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Well organized. It was also the best group of travelers I’ve ever been with.
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Visiting Glacier National Park was wonderful!
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We were unaware that we were the maiden tour. There were a lot of "kinks" in the plans. Hotels were just ok, food was just ok. It was a little too slow for us.
