Yellowstone National Park 2025 Trip Reports
Trip Report ~ Bear & Wolf Sightings ~ by Bill Hamblin
23 through 25 October 2025
Yellowstone National Park
Beautiful Mountain Lion ~ Lamar Valley ~ April 10th, 2023 ~ Photo by Linda Rudge Carney © All Rights Reserved
Mountain Lion ~ also known as the Cougar, Puma, Panther, or Catamount ~ Puma concolor
~ October 2025 ~
2025 Wildlife Reports
This is the final Yellowstone Trip Report for me in 2025./p>
October 23rd - Thursday
28 degrees in Silver Gate this morning warming up to 65 degrees this afternoon out in the park. I watched two trumpeter swans this morning in Hayden Valley. I missed the wolf sightings this morning as they watched fifteen of the Junction Butte wolves on the slopes of Hellroaring. Missing wolves today was one black and 1434F the gray female wolf. I decided to go south to Hayden this morning. At 9:00 a.m. Hanna, a tour guide, called with a grizzly in view from the walk to the west near Three Panel Pullout. It was a medium sized grizzly who remained in sight for hours. At 10:00 a.m. Hanna called again with wolves in view from the hill behind Grizzly Overlook looking west. Some Wapiti wolves were being seen. I hiked up the hill for the second time this morning and over the next forty minutes I got to see four gray wolves, two black, and the almost white alpha female wolf as a very long range. Russ K was there and showed me the site and helped count the wolves. Apparently, the Wapiti wolf pack did not have any pups that survived. They number about twenty adult wolves now./p>
October 24th - Friday
32 degrees in Silver Gate this morning warming up to a nice 65 degrees just outside of Gardiner this afternoon, where I camped for tonight. I left the park this morning and missed the Junction Butte wolfpack again seen several times on the Hellroaring Slopes. Again, today fifteen of the seventeen Junction Butte wolves were seen. Again, a black and 1434F the gray female was missing. I did have a large grizzly moving north through the Buffalo Ford area at 8:30 a.m. viewed from Boulder Pullout. Around 9:05 a.m. I did get a short view of three black Junction Butte wolves high near the Trough heading to the east. From 2:15 p.m. until dark I watched a grizzly sow with two yearling cubs digging north of Gardiner. I had a moose cross the road in front of my car on the way back to the campground./p>
October 25th - Saturay
A warm 42 degrees this morning north of the park warming up to 61 going through the park on my way back to Idaho Falls, Idaho this afternoon. At 8:00 a.m. I watched the same family as last night north of the park. A grizzly sow with two yearlings digging in the same area as last evening. I did run back into the park for a few hours this morning finding nothing. I did miss the five or six black pups that had been seen this morning in Lamar Valley. A pleasant surprise on the drive home. About six miles north of Madison Junction a nice sized grizzly appeared on the east side of the road in a rock formation. I started my spring on March 25th and was lucky to see a grizzly on Specimen Ridge viewed from Elk Creek; and today October 25th I watched my last grizzly although briefly./p>
October 26th - Sunday
On Sunday most of the roads were being closed as a winter storm was coming through and numerous vehicles had run off the road. I guess I left the park about the right day.
People Seen
Wolf Watchers: From Montana: Rick M, Taylor R, Jeremy S, Dan and Laurie L, Marisa F, Becky C, Janice and Cindy H, Jeff A, and Helena E. From Virginia: Des and Colleen C. From Kansas: Calvin and Lynette J. From California: Kathie L, and Bruce and Maryjean Mc. From Colorado: Mark, Carol and Roch R. From Wyoming: Dale and Fay B. And from Florida: Carrie P. Bear Watchers seen this report: From Utah: Scott M. Other seen this report: From Montana: Russ K and Quinn H.
Thanks Bill!
Beautiful Mountain Lion ~ Lamar Valley ~ April 10th, 2023 ~ Photo by Linda Rudge Carney © All Rights Reserved
Mountain Lion ~ also known as the Cougar, Puma, Panther, or Catamount ~ Puma concolor
Lamar Valley Map - Yellowstone National Park
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