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We are Yellowstone YearRound
Adventures, Inc.; we want to help you experience the
wonders of Yellowstone on our
Wildlife Tours,
Geyser and Waterfall
Tours,
Day Hikes and Snowshoe Treks,
and much more! Fishing, Cross country skiing, and other
activities are also available! If you need assistance to
put together your trip our Vacation Planning Assistance
service may be just what you are looking for! Let our
many years of experience guide you in organizing the
trip of a lifetime.
Our family owned and operated business is a permitted
Yellowstone National Park and Gallatin National Forest
concessionaire based at the north and original entrance
to Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner MT, with offices
in West Yellowstone and Bozeman to serve you throughout
Yellowstone Country. Our goal is to provide you with a
quality and rewarding vacation while in Yellowstone. We
want those who visit the area to leave wanting to come
back and explore Yellowstone again and again.
 Rick
Keats, founder of Yellowstone YearRound Adventures,
Inc., has been guiding in and around Yellowstone
National Park since 1997. His love for the area bloomed
when he worked as a law enforcement officer in Cody, WY.
After 20 years, Rick was ready for a change and started
his own seasonal rafting company on the Missouri River
in Cascade Montana. The lure of Yellowstone was great
and he also worked part time for an established company
in West Yellowstone, as a tour guide by van in the
summer and snow coach or snowmobile guide in the winter.
He guided rafters and fishermen on the Missouri River
for two seasons, before selling the business to move to
West Yellowstone and guide year round in Yellowstone and
Grand Teton National Parks. Rick especially enjoyed
taking visitors to the northern range of Yellowstone on
the Evening Wildlife Tours. It was a thrill to spot
animals in their natural habitat that most people could
only see in zoos or on TV. He often lamented that the
tours would be so much better if he didn’t have to waste
so much time driving from West Yellowstone. When Rick's
wife, Carol, became the Postmaster in Gardiner, Rick
quickly moved from West Yellowstone to Gardiner and
started his own tour business, Yellowstone Yearround
Adventures.
In 2010 Yellowstone YearRound Adventures, Inc. became a
division of Yellowstone Glacier Adventures, Inc. to
offer our guests even more opportunities.
Steve Braun, the new owner of Yellowstone YearRound
Adventures, Inc., and the owner and founder of
Yellowstone Glacier Adventures, Inc. has been guiding
and teaching in the Yellowstone Ecosystem for more than
20 years. Steve also teaches numerous workshops and
classes around the world including Japanese Ministry of
Education “Super Science” schools together with museums
and nature centers. Steve founded Yellowstone Glacier
Adventures, Inc. in 1991. During the past 20 years more
than 40,000 visitors have enjoyed and learned about
Yellowstone.
 Mayu Braun is co-owner of Yellowstone Glacier
Adventures, Inc. A plant specialist and writer for
numerous magazine articles, Mayu also served as a state
park manager in Japan for 6 years, preserving the park’s
natural resources while managing more than 100,000 park
visitors per year. Mayu also worked to save from
extinction several plant and animal species by
establishing gene banks and reintroducing species into
the wild.
Our additional staff looks forward to serving you!
Yellowstone YearRound Adventures, Inc. is a division of
Yellowstone Glacier Adventures, Inc. and Adventure
Yellowstone, Inc. We are proud to serve you throughout
America's National Parks. Licensed by the US National
Park Service and US Forest Service to serve you
YearRound!
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 For
the past few months we had been dreaming about this trip, our
second, to Yellowstone. Now that the children are older, we were
going to focus on the wildlife of the park and we were just hoping,
at best, to glance at a distant wolf or grizzly through binoculars.
We were excited and knew your services would help us, but were not
quite prepared for what happened. In two days, we saw at least 16
grizzlies, a total of 4 wolves, golden eagles, mountain goats,
pronghorns, big horn sheep, baby owls, ospreys and of course,
legions of elks, bison, etc. Unbelievable! Getting up at 4:45
a.m. was not too, too bad, knowing that Rick would be right there on
time, waiting in his comfortable van, and that he would have freshly
brewed coffee, delicious homemade breakfast burritos and rolls all
ready for us! What an unexpected treat. Rick knew exactly where to
go and when ─
as if all the fantastic scenes we witnessed had been staged just for
us. He taught us so much, and no nicely, about the history, biology
and life of the park and the animals, and proper animal-watching
etiquette. In fact, after a couple of days we were starting to be
able to spot a few animals on our own. The scopes he provided were
of top quality, easy to use, and we were even able to take a few
pictures through them. Our trip was fantastic and varied
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Rick knew how long to stay at each site, what to look for and where,
when we were hungry or needed to stretch our legs! He was patient
with us and put our safety first at all times. We were impressed too
by the excellent relationships he had with the park rangers, other
biologists and were proud to even be introduced to a world famous
documentary film maker whose work in the wolves of Yellowstone we
were familiar with! This note would not be complete without a
special mention of the food we were served
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homemade everything, fresh and delicious, served on a table cloth in
a picturesque picnic area. How could you beat that? These two days
flew by so fast ─
thank goodness we have over 250 photos and a
 couple
of short movies of the grizzlies that we are going to look at again
and again for the next few years!
With my best regards,
Veronique Lagrange |
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