Top North America Nature & Wildlife Trips & Packages In 2025/2026

Highlights

• Spot incredible wildlife on land and on Zodiac excursions. Canada’s High Arctic is home to fantastic beasts like polar bears, musk oxen, narwhals and caribou.
• Traverse the waterways of the so-called Northwest Passage, with possible landings in Lancaster Sound, the Bellot Strait and Port Leopold Island.
• Discover the immense beauty of ancient glaciers, house-sized icebergs, granite mountains and epic tundra that extends as far as the eye can see.
• With two helicopters on board, you’ll get the chance to take included flights to soar above the Arctic landscape and make landings at otherwise inaccessible areas.
• Explore parts of the Nunavut region with Inuit guides and learn about the people who have lived in the world’s most difficult environments for thousands of years.

Highlights

• Valdez: Special presentation by a local fishing expert; cruise Prince William Sound
• Delta junction : Visit the living history homestead
• Fairbanks: Pan for gold at Gold Dredge #8; cruise aboard sternwheeler riverboat Discovery; enjoy an Alaska salmon bake
• Fairbanks–denali: Journey aboard the Alaska Railroad in Deluxe Dome Service
• Denali national park: Dinner and exclusive presentation at the Murie Science & Learning Center by a local Naturalist; guided wilderness expedition

Highlights

• Toronto : dinner at CN Tower; orientation tour
• Niagara falls : Sightseeing cruise
• Toronto–jasper : Private bedroom on VIA Rail’s the Canadian® (travel in Sleeper Plus class)
• Jasper national park : Cruise Maligne Lake; sightseeing
• Columbia icefield : Ice Explorer ride on the Columbia Icefield

Highlights

• Fairbanks : Cruise aboard sternwheeler riverboat Discovery
• Denali national park : Dinner and exclusive presentation at the Murie Science & Learning Center by a local Naturalist; guided wilderness expedition
• Denali–talkeetna: Journey aboard Alaska Railroad in Deluxe Dome Service.
• Talkeetna: Enjoy a local Alaskan treat
• Big lake : Visit Happy Trails Kennels

Highlights

• Wasilla : Visit Iditarod Headquarters
• Talkeetna–denali : Journey aboard the Alaska Railroad in Deluxe Dome Service
• Denali national park : Dinner at the Murie Science & Learning Center and an exclusive presentation by a local Naturalist; guided wilderness tour, lunch and tasting at the 49th State Brewery
• Fairbanks : Sightseeing; cruise aboard the sternwheeler Discovery; visit the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum and the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline
• Dawson city : Visit Diamond Tooth Gertie’s, Claim #1, and the Robert Service Interpretive Center

Highlights

• Fairbanks : Cruise aboard sternwheeler riverboat Discovery
• Denali national park : Dinner and exclusive presentation at the Murie Science & Learning Center by a local Naturalist; guided wilderness expedition
• Denali–talkeetna: Journey aboard Alaska Railroad in Deluxe Dome Service.
• Talkeetna: Enjoy a local Alaskan treat
• Big lake : Visit Happy Trails Kennels

Highlights

• Valdez: Special presentation by a local fishing expert; cruise Prince William Sound
• Delta junction : Visit the living history homestead
• Fairbanks: Pan for gold at Gold Dredge #8; cruise aboard the sternwheeler riverboat Discovery; enjoy an Alaska salmon bake
• Fairbanks–denali: Journey aboard the Alaska Railroad in Deluxe Dome Service
• Denali national park: Dinner and exclusive presentation at the Murie Science & Learning Center by a local Naturalist; guided wilderness expedition

Highlights

• Girdwood : Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center; aerial tram ride
• Anchorage : Sightseeing; behind-the-scenes visit at Alaska Zoo; attend the Musher’s Banquet; visit Iditarod Headquarters; see the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Race; visit the Alaska Native Heritage Center; farewell dinner
• Big lake : Visit Happy Trails Kennels
• Willow : Attend the official “restart” of the Iditarod raceFAIRBANKS
• This tour through Alaska focuses on some of the events that make Alaska so unique—the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and the Iditarod