Tippet Rise Tours
Geo-Paleo Tours
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- Pets are not permitted at Tippet Rise.
- Please arrive 30 minutes before your tour’s scheduled departure time.
- Space is limited and advanced registration is required for all tour guests.
- Each tour requires extensive walking over rough terrain. Please wear footwear suitable for walking.
- The weather can change quickly at Tippet Rise. Please dress for the outdoors and please wear sun protection.
- Please bring water or a water bottle, which you can fill in the Visitor Center. You are welcome to bring snacks.
- You are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch to eat on the Tippet Rise campus after the tour. Please note, Tippet Rise does not have catering services on Thursdays.
- For more information, including a packing list, please see the FAQs section of our Visit page.
Poised at the convergence of two vastly different regions, the Beartooth Mountains and the Great Plains, Tippet Rise is home to a unique combination of geologic wonders, from fossilized marine life to ice-age gravel deposits. The art center was founded in part to celebrate the connections between nature, art, architecture, and music. To this end, we offer Geo-Paleo Tours at Tippet Rise, which allow our guests to explore and gain some understanding of the various geological and paleontological features scattered across the art center’s 12,500 acres—features that offer clues to and glimpses of the geologic processes that formed this extraordinary region.
The Geo-Paleo Tours are the result of a partnership between Tippet Rise and the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association (YBRA), founded by the Princeton Geological Association in 1936 at the foot of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana. YBRA’s distinguished faculty lead the tours.
