435-Acre Enclosure - Tram Tour

April 28th, 2012. There is a 55-minute tram tour through this massive enclosure, which is a gigantic 435 acres of meadows, thick forests and two small lakes. All of the animals have free rein of the entire area, and they can only be seen from the tour. There are 7 species of hoofstock in the enclosure: woodland caribou, roosevelt elk, blacktail deer, rocky mountain goat, bighorn sheep, bison and moose.

On the hour-long tour I spotted 3 trumpeter swans, several western painted turtles, a pileated woodpecker noisily bashing at a tree, about 25 bighorn sheep (including a bachelor herd), all 3 of the park's Rocky Mountain goats (1.2), a handful of woodland caribou, about 20 elk (including a bachelor herd), a single female moose (I believe that the park has 3 altogether), about 15 bison and a handful of black-tailed deer. The naturalist guide said that there are anywhere from 40-50 black-tailed deer roaming the 435-acre enclosure.