Eager to get out and explore & photograph magnificent locations? Take a more in-depth look at Backcountry Journeys’ most popular photo tours to see which one might be perfect for you in 2021 and/or 2022!

#1 B rown Bears of Katmai

Katmai is one of the largest National Parks in the United States at over 4 million acres and is arguably the single best place on Earth to photograph Grizzlies in their natural environment.
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#2 The Wildlife of Costa Rica

Costa Rica has long been a destination as one of the most exotic and unique locales on the planet. In regards to Wildlife Costa Rica is known for its abundant diversity and home to a rich variety of plants and animals.
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#3 Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is a visual cornucopia and one of the most surreal and colorful places on the planet. Its stunning peaks, roaring waterfalls, brilliant night skies, and summer storms allow for virtually endless photographic possibilities.
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#4 Yellowstone & Grand Teton

Yellowstone is the World’s first national park and the Tetons may be the most beautiful! Aside from countless wildlife opportunities, they are both full of beautiful mountain landscapes and Yellowstone contains over 10,000 thermal features including over half of the world’s known geysers.
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#5 Polar Bears of the Alaskan Arctic

Join us on an incredible once-in-a-lifetime adventure this fall to photograph Alaskan Polar Bears up close and personal! We’ll travel to a remote island in the Arctic Ocean to photograph scores of Polar Bears at eye-level from a small boat.

#6 Ultimate Northern Lights

On our Ultimate Northern Lights Photography Tour & Workshop, we take you NORTH to one of the absolute BEST locations in the world – to view and photograph the Aurora Borealis.
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#7 Yosemite National Park

Buried deep in the western Sierra Nevada Mountains of California lies a place that resembles most people’s idea of heaven. Here towering granite mountains stand like great castle walls, home to plentiful waterfalls that cascade into deep valleys and meadows below.
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#8 Ultimate Botswana Wildlife Safari

Africa is a vast continent complete with the kind of natural wonders that you’ll find no place else on earth. It is here that lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, and vast herds of elephants still roam free amongst the expansive plains.
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#9 Canyons of Utah: Arches & Canyonlands

Odds are good, that when you think of the southwestern United States, images conjured up are from the Moab area of southeastern Utah. Famous for arches, towers, and canyons, there is no shortage of incredible scenery to behold here.
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#10 Smoky Mountains National Park

Step into the Smoky Mountains for a truly wondrous display of life. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddles the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee in the southeastern United States, is renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the history of its Appalachian mountain culture.
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