Every animal who lives here has either been injured or orphaned. We provide a safe, loving and species-appropriate home for all of our rescued friends. We love our animals and you will too.
We invite you to walk our trails, enjoy the peace and quiet, and spend a little time with our beautiful animal friends.
Mission Statement: By caring for animals unable to return to the wild, the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary's primary focus is to educate the public about the protection and conservation of Yellowstone ecosystem wildlife and natural habitats.
This website is under complete redesign. We plan to unveil our new site filled with lots of educational information by the end of the 1st quarter in 2013. So please bear with us in these final days of our old site. We promise the new site will be MUCH easier to use and include all the information you need to plan a wonderful visit to YWS. It will also be much easier to support YWS online!
Come and visit all our rescued animals!
Open daily 10-5
-Starting June 19th through August 14th we will be open until 8pm every Wednesday evening
-Located at 615 2nd Street East, Red Lodge, MT
Formerly Beartooth Nature Center
Leave your mark at Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary
Help us make a pathway of memories that will last a lifetime. You can design and create your own memory brick.
Click on the link below and it will take you to our donor site and let the creating begin. Once your brick is purchased and made it will be delivered to YWS and it will be added to our pathway ( located between Clark & Sacajewa our resident mountain lions).
Please note that YWS will be closing early on Saturday, June 29th for all-staff training!
We will close at 1pm for the rest of the day. Thanks for your patience.
Don’t Miss The Wildlife Jamboree!
Saturday, June 15th
4pm until 8pm
FREE
This fun filled event is for folks of all ages. We’ll have live music, picnic dinner, games, prizes, activities, face painting, Pippi The Clown, glitter hair, tattoos and so much more!
We’ve also got an awesome raffle that includes 8 box seats to The Home of Champions Rodeo and a large gas grill donated by True Value. The raffle will be held at 6:30 during the event. Tickets are on sale now in our gift shop and you can choose which item you want to win!
