Discover Jasper and its Wildlife

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1. Join an experienced guide on this small group tour and marvel at the beauty of the surrounding landscape as you explore Jasper National Park for an evening wildlife tour. Traveling through the Athabasca Valley, your guide will show you some of the park’s most beautiful scenery, so have your camera ready to capture some amazing photos! Your guide is trained to seek out the park's most fascinating wildlife, and is well-versed in the history, geology and ecology of the area and is happy to answer any questions you may have. The selected route is at the discretion of your guide, so you'll have the best chances to spot elk, deer, big horned sheep, mountain goats, foxes, coyotes, wolves, and moose and more. Snap photos from your van or on the ground at a safe distance from the animals. Jasper National Park is not a zoo but a wild, protected area. The types of animals seen on the tour depends on the season, the time of day, and the weather. You'll learn all about the ways the animals contribute to the rich diversity of the park. You'll be returned to your hotel after your tour.

   3 hAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 167 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Great tour

  Amazing tour so many animals including Elk, beaver and moose Yvonne our guide was exceptional, so knowledgeable and friendly

  Sarah_VOctober 2026via Viator

• 5Wildlife Galire

  Wasn’t sure how much wildlife we would see and was very pleasantly impressed by the variety and number of animals we did see. Having guides familiar with the area helped a lot. We saw elk - bulls and doe, moose male and female, eagle, mergansers, big horn sheep - ewes, a bear etc. many of these were multiple sitings. The wildfires actually enhanced the ability to spot wildlife by not having the dense woods

  Christine_BSeptember 2026via Viator

• 5Would recommend this company based on this experience.

  Picked us, in a group of travelers, at early morning train coming in to Jasper. Given a gap of several hours before hotel check in, gave a three hour (not like Gilligan) tour of the Jasper area. Very knowledgeable, providing a lot of information that only a local would know. Nice to have that perspective in addition to the long range and historical context. A couple of stops for leg stretch and pictures. Pleasant and comfortable bus.

  SeniorTravelerTFSeptember 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Excellent

  We saw lots of elk, a bald eagle and a bear (albeit from quite far away). Although not the most successful in terms of wildlife spotting, our guide Steve was fantastic and incredibly knowledgable. We learnt lots about not only the wildlife but also the surrounding area including the impact of the wildfire. Still incredibly enjoyable- would highly recommend.

  35annekabSeptember 2026via Tripadvisor

• 2Disappointing

  This was not a wildlife tour at all. The tour guide is also the driver and she drives at highway speeds waiting for one of the passengers to sight an animal and then circles back sometimes taking 15 minutes and the animal is gone. Where large groups of cars are on the road, she got the bus right in there so we could get close up views of elk. We did not see anything else. She told stories the entire time she was driving and a fact chack at some of the crazier ones showed they weren't even true. So not even informative because we didn't know what to believe. She never talked about the fire. She parked in a parking lot during prime dusk hours for at least 45 minutes and sent part of the group on a hike up the mountain while she pulled out skulls and antlers from the bus so everyone that stayed behind on the hike had a presentation to watch. Not as advertised at all.

  Kathy_PSeptember 2026via Viator

• 3Highway ‘wildlife’ search

  Buyer beware this ‘wildlife’ tour. If you’ve hired a car in Canada you don’t need this tour! It is basically 3.5 hours being driven up & down the highway where you are required to look out for any potential wildlife. We had mistakenly assumed the driver would know some hotspots but this was not really the case. Our guide was a delight and had some great stories, but this a wildlife tour does not make! Full disclosure we saw 3 elk and an osprey (through binoculars) and that was all. 4 hours later we felt it wasn’t the best use of an evening in Jasper.

  desperateh0usewife1September 2026via Tripadvisor

Know before you go

How it compares in Jasper

• Its from-price is 21% below the median of the 64 experiences we list in Jasper.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 16 of 64.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Jasper

Jasper is a mountain town on the Athabasca River in Alberta, inside the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, among glaciers, lakes and wildlife.

Jasper sits at about 1,060 metres on the Athabasca River, ringed by peaks, in the largest national park of the Canadian Rockies. The town grew around the railway in the early twentieth century, and elk graze on its lawns and wander its streets. The park, together with its neighbours, forms the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage site, and it is one of the largest dark-sky preserves in the world.

Top-ranked sights in Jasper: Maligne Lake, Medicine Lake, Spirit Island.

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