Northwest Trek Trip - Amazing Wildlife Opportunities

ccraft

Hi,

I've just returned from an incredible weekend (and organized photo tour) to a place called Northwest Trek. As a wildlife photographer, I always try to get pictures of animals in their natural habitat (and organize all of my vacations around doing just that).

When I heard about Northwest Trek - a wildlife park where the majority of animals were rescued and weren't able to be released into the wild - I thought it was too good to be true. It's touted as a "cageless" environment for the majority of animals.

Well... the place definitely lived up to the hype.

All of their grazing animals are indeed virually cageless. They have acres upon acres to roam around and you have to take a tram run by the park in order to see them. this limits the contact these animals have with humans and it also means the animals are playing around in their own environments.

Teh caged animals had reasonable "cages" - and there are fenceless areas where you can point your camera inside. I did find the cats didn't have an ideal amount of space to move around, and I did see some pacing typical of poor zoo animals. The one consolation is that these were rescued animals who wouldn't have a life without a facility like this.

Here are a few pictures from the trip. If you are interested in going - it's about an hour and a half from Seattle (a 3.5 hour drive from Vancouver). It's in Eatonville, WA.

http://www.naturestocklibrary.com/keyword/northwest+trek

Cheers!

dbaker1221

wow ...sweet pics. ..thanks for the info.

Gale

Beautiful images

raptorcaptor

Very nice!

jwear

very nice and thanks for the info I like your shot lay out also

LuckyBob

Good shots! It's been years since I've been there - maybe a Dgrin field trip in the summer?

Maestro

Just awesome! Thanks for sharing the information and the wonderful pics! I just got back from wildlife day adventrue in the Texas Hill Country. It is a managed wildlife center, but the animals for the most part are free roaming except for the endangered species and carnivore predators like the Mexican Wolf and the cheetah for example. It was a blast.

ccraft

Maestro wrote:

Just awesome! Thanks for sharing the information and the wonderful pics! I just got back from wildlife day adventrue in the Texas Hill Country. It is a managed wildlife center, but the animals for the most part are free roaming except for the endangered species and carnivore predators like the Mexican Wolf and the cheetah for example. It was a blast.

Thanks so much for your feedback. I highly recommend NWT to anyone who is interested. if there's ever a Digital Grin trip planned you can count me in!

Cheers!