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Are you a wolf lover who wants to interact with some wolves? Fortunately, there are a handful of wolf sanctuaries, nature centers and wildlife centers in the U.S. that allow you to pet and interact with wolves.

The following is a list of places where you can interact with wolves in the U.S.:

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center:

Address: 4729 Twin Rocks Rd, Divide, CO

Website: www.wolfeducation.org

Established in 2003, the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center is a wildlife center in Colorado that is home to wolves, coyotes and foxes.

The center offers a variety of tours where you can view the wolves, coyotes and foxes at the facility.

It also offers three types of animal encounters where you can interact with the wolves, such as the Meet & Greet Encounter, VIP encounter and the Feeding Tour.

The Meet & Greet Encounter is a 1.5 hour meet & greet and tour, with a group of up to 16 people, where guests can pet and interact with a wolf inside the enclosure.

The VIP Encounter is a private, 20 to 25 minute up-close and personal encounter with a wolf inside the wolf enclosure.

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The Feeding Tour is a 60 to 75 minute guided educational tour where guests can watch a caretaker feed the wolves, coyotes and foxes.

The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center is owned by Darlene Kobobel and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Myrtle Beach Safari:

Address: 851 Folly Ranch Ln, Myrtle Beach, SC

Website: docantlesdaysafari.com

Established in 1982, Myrtle Beach Safari is a 50-acre wildlife tropical preserve in South Carolina that features exotics animals such as big cats, elephants, monkeys and wolves.

The preserve offers guided tours of the facility where guests can view the many exotic animals that live there.

In addition, the preserve also offers a Photo Encounter during which guests can pet and hold a baby chimpanzee , capuchin monkey, tiger cub or a wolf pup.

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The preserve also offers other types of animal encounters, such as a wildlife encounters day tour, a night safari, an African safari and a private encounter.

Myrtle Beach Safari is owned by Doc Antle who is an animal trainer that was featured on the Netflix documentary Tiger King and was also the subject of a three-part true crime documentary spin-off of Tiger King, titled Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story.

Just a word of warning about the facility, Antle was recently indicted on Federal charges of wildlife trafficking, animal cruelty, violation of the Endangered Species Act and money laundering and has also been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behavior by several women employed at the park in 2020 and 2022.

Mission Wolf:

Address: 13388 Co Rd 634, Westcliffe, CO

Website: www.missionwolf.org

Established in 1986, Mission: Wolf is a nature center and animal sanctuary for captive-born wolves and horses. The center is currently home to over 125 wolves and 25 horses on its 350-acre preserve.

The center offers guided tours inside the 50-acre wolf enclosure during which the wolves will sometimes approach the guests and allow themselves to be petted.

The center also offers overnight camping at the sanctuary during which guests can volunteer to help take care of the wolves during the day and then enjoy listening to the wolves howl at night while relaxing at their campsite on the property.

Mission: Wolf is owned by Kent Weber.

North Georgia Wildlife & Safari Park:

Address: 2912 Paradise Valley Rd, Cleveland, GA

Website: www.northgeorgiazoo.com

Founded in 2010, the North Georgia Wildlife & Safari Park is a safari park in Georgia that is home to more than 400 animals.

The park offers a variety of animal experiences including two wolf encounters: a Wolf Pup Experience and a Wolf Experience.

The wolf pup experience is a 15 to 20 minute encounter with a wolf puppy during which guests can interact, play with and train a wolf puppy and also have their photo taken with the puppy.

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The wolf experience is a 30 to 40 minute experience with one to two wolves up close.

In addition, the park also offers other types of animal encounters such as a sloth experience, a primate experience, a reptile experience, a feline experience, a fox experience and more.

The North Georgia Wildlife & Safari Park is owned by husband and wife team Tom and Hope Bennett.

Predators of the Heart Sanctuary:

Address: 4709 Welch Ln, Anacortes, WA

Website: www.airbnb.com/experiences/47240

Established in 1998, Predators of the Heart is a 10-acre wildlife sanctuary in Washington state that is home to animals rescued from the exotic pet trade such as wolves, cougars, bobcats, birds of prey, reptiles and small mammals. The sanctuary currently has 26 wolf dogs.

The sanctuary offers tours of the property which include a visit inside the wolf’s enclosure where guests can pet and interact with the wolves.

The sanctuary is owned by Dave Coelburn.

Shy Wolf Sanctuary:

Address: 1161 27th St SW Naples, Florida

Website: shywolfsanctuary.org

Established in 1993, the Shy Wolf Sanctuary is an animal refuge for exotic animals such as wolves, foxes and big cats.

The sanctuary offers two types of animal encounters with the wolves: a private animal encounter and a private party with an animal encounter.

The private animal encounter is a two-hour interactive animal encounter for a group of two to six people.

The private party is a party for up to 20 guests that includes a private animal encounter for the guests.

The Shy Wolf Sanctuary is owned by Nancy and Kent Smith.

Seacrest Wolf Preserve:

Address: 3449 Bonnett Pond Rd, Chipley, FL

Website: www.seacrestwolfpreserve.org

Established in 1999, the Seacrest Wolf Preserve is a wolf preserve in Florida dedicated to wolf and wildlife preservation.

The preserve offers VIP tours during which guests enter the wolf enclosure for an up-close interactive encounter with the wolves.

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Photos of the encounter are taken for the guests by a staff photographer during the tour and a video of the group howling with the wolves is also available for an additional donation fee.

The Seacrest Wolf Preserve is owned by Wayne and Cynthia Watkins.

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary:

Address: 378 Candy Kitchen Rd, Ramah, NM

Website: wildspiritwolfsanctuary.org

Established in 1991, Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary is a 100-acre sanctuary for displaced and unwanted captive wolves, wolf dogs, coyotes, foxes, dingoes and domestic dogs.

The sanctuary offers various types of tours at its facility during which guests can view the animals from a distance.

The sanctuary also offers a Feeding Tour, which is a one-hour experience during which guests help prepare food for the animals in the lower compound area and assist staff in the feeding process. At the end of the tour, guests get to compete in a Yeet-loaf competition which is a throwing competition using imitation meatloaf.

The sanctuary is owned by Barbara Berge who cofounded the sanctuary with the late Jacque Evans.

Wolf Mountain Nature Center:

Address: 562 Hopkins Crandall Road, Smyrna, NY

Website: www.thewolfmountainnaturecenter.org

Founded in 2006, the Wolf Mountain Nature Center is a 70-acre nature center in New York state that is home to gray wolves, eastern coyotes and arctic fox.

The nature center offers guided and self-guided tours of its facility where guests can view the animals in their enclosures.

In addition, the nature center also offers a Camping with the Wolves experience during which guests can camp overnight at the nature center and enjoy a tour, guided hike, wolf communication program and an opportunity to assist caretakers in feeding of the wolves.

William Pryor is the president of Wolf Mountain Nature Center Inc.

Wolf Mountain Sanctuary:

Address: 7520 Fairlane Rd, Lucerne Valley, CA

Website: www.wolfmountainsanctuary.org

Founded in 1985, the Wolf Mountain Sanctuary is a small 5-acre wolf sanctuary in California that is home to eight wolves.

The sanctuary offers guided tours in the wolf enclosure during which guests can pet, play and interact with the wolves.

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The sanctuary is owned and operated by Tonya Littlewolf, who is a member of the Chiricahua Mescalero Apache tribe.

Wolf Creek Habitat & Rescue:

Address: 14099 Wolf Creek Rd, Brookville, Indiana

Website: www.wolfcreekhabitat.org

Established in 1997, Wolf Creek Habitat & Rescue is a wolf preserve in Indiana.

The preserve offers guided tours during which guests can enter the wolf enclosures and pet, play and interact with the wolves. The preserve also offers lodging in cabins and tents on the property.

Wolf Creek Habitat is owned by husband and wife team Kathy and Terry Baudendistel.

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A timber wolf peers through the forest in Denali National Park, Alaska, one of the best places in the United States to see wolves in the wild.

Wolves are making a comeback. Here’s where to see them

Grab your binoculars and track thriving populations in Yellowstone, Denali, and beyond.

You might say that National Geographic Explorer Doug Smith is obsessed with wolves . After all, he’s spent his entire career studying them. A wildlife biologist, he leads the Wolf Restoration project in Yellowstone National Park, trekking on foot, riding horseback, and leaping from helicopters to research and protect these native canines.

Though several scientists argue the animal’s recovery is not yet complete , gray wolves are no longer considered endangered in some states, and a 40-year conservation effort has seen their numbers boom —meaning there’s no better time to encounter them in their native habitats.

“The wolf is the poster child of wilderness,” says Smith. “When you see one in the wild, it awakens the senses and everything feels right.” Here are a few of his favorite places to spot them in the United States .

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

If you explore these majestic landscapes for three or four days, “you’ll be rewarded with more than just a glimpse,” Smith says. For the best wolf sightings, visit in summer or midwinter and search during the early morning. In Yellowstone , look for packs living in the Lamar Valley, Hayden Valley, and Blacktail Deer Plateau. In Grand Teton , head to Willow Flats. ( Learn how the Yellowstone we don’t see is a struggle for life and death. )

Trip tips: Drive the Great Loop Road to pass through Lamar Valley for a chance to glimpse its local wolf pack, then head southwest to the Mount Washburn Trail, a six-mile loop to a fire lookout tower that provides a sweeping, 10,000-foot vantage point over Yellowstone. Book well in advance at Old Faithful Inn (May-October) to experience the national historic landmark for yourself. At Grand Teton, be on the lookout for other wildlife from beavers to bison, then make your way to Jackson Lake to fish, sail, water ski, and windsurf.

Related: See our favorite pictures of wolves

Denali National Park & Preserve

In this remote Alaskan wilderness—at 6.1 million acres, one of the largest national parks in the U.S.—expect fewer people and more wolves. Drivers on the Denali Park Road frequently report sightings. If you spot wolves, don’t give chase. “They’ll run away,” Smith says, “and it ruins the moment for everyone.” If you’re on foot, scout river banks for clues such as paw prints. Bring binoculars or a spotting scope to zoom in on the action. ( Here’s how to do wildlife tourism right. )

Trip tips: Visit in summer, when Denali Park Road is open. You can drive the first 15 miles, then hop on a shuttle or tour bus. After a day of hiking, stay the night at Wonder Lake Campground for commanding views of Denali itself, at 20,310 feet North America’s tallest peak. Pack insect repellent to ward off the persistent mosquitoes and be sure to make use of the bear-safe food lockers available in the campground.

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Bundle up if you go in winter, the prime time to see wolves in this pristine part of Minnesota . Try a sled dog excursion and follow wolf tracks in the snow. During late summer, book a guided canoe trip and you may be treated to the rare sound of wolf pups learning to howl. The presence of wolves, Smith says, gives the area that “wild, north woods feeling.”

Trip tips: As its name suggests, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is best seen from the water. Reserve the required permits to enter and overnight, then strike off on your own or book a guided canoe tour. Motorboats are mostly banned in this massive, glacier-carved backcountry. In the winter, trade the boat for a dogsled, a pair of skis, or snowshoes to traverse the serene expanse.

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Are there Wolves in the Northeast?

Wolves once roamed the U.S. from sea to shining sea in the United States. But slaughter by humans brought wolves to the brink of extinction. In recent decades, reintroduction and conservation efforts have revived gray wolf populations in some regions. And now, despite political barriers and substantial distances, wolves are advancing to their historic territories on their own.

Over the past 20 years, officials have documented a number of notable epic treks. Just to name a few:

Different wolves traveling south from Yellowstone into Utah and Colorado,
A single female wolf , affectionately named “Echo,” reached the North Rim of the Grand Canyon from the northern Rockies,
California’s famed first wolf OR-7 traveled from Oregon to become the first wild wolf to enter the Golden State in over eighty years,
Just last month, Colorado wildlife officials confirmed the state’s first wolf family since the species was exterminated by federally-funded bounties in the 1940s

Are Wolves Present in New York?

Over three centuries, as the great eastern forest was turned into farmland, wolves were shot, poisoned, trapped, and burned. By the mid-1800s, wolves were eliminated in northern Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. By 1900, they were gone from the Adirondacks.

Although the howl of the wolf has been mostly silent in the Northeast for over a hundred years, individual wild wolves have ventured into the northeastern United States. Given the close proximity of wolf populations in Canada and the Great Lakes and the vast dispersal distances covered by wolves, it is not surprising that wolves have dispersed into Northeast states too, including New York.

Unfortunately, because the Northeast states sanction policies that encourage the killing of coyotes, the evidence of gray wolf presence in the Northeast consists primarily of documented killings of wolves.

Gray Wolves Documented in the Northeast States

The following is a list of some of the documented cases of gray wolves in Northeast states since 1990:

In September 1993, a gray wolf was shot and killed near Moosehead Lake in Maine. Later DNA analysis confirmed that the animal was a wolf.
In 1996, a possible wolf was trapped and killed near Bangor, Maine . Later DNA analysis revealed that the animal was a wolf with evidence of coyote hybridization.
In November 1998, a wolf was shot and killed in Glover, Vermont . The animal’s DNA matched that of wolf populations in the Northeast United States and in Canada.
On December 19, 2001, a wolf was shot and killed in Day, New York by a hunter who claimed that he thought the animal was a coyote. Later laboratory and DNA analysis confirmed the animal was a gray wolf.
On April 12, 2005, a wolf was shot and killed in Sterling, New York . DNA analysis confirmed the animal was likely a wolf.
In 2005, canid scat was collected near Rangeley, Maine, that was analyzed and identified as consistent with gray wolf DNA.
On October 1, 2006, a hunter shot and killed a wolf in North Troy, Vermont . Although the hunter asserted that he thought he was shooting at a coyote, an investigation by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department identified it as a gray wolf.
On October 13, 2007, a wolf was shot and killed in Shelbourne, Massachusetts . DNA analysis identified the animal as an eastern gray wolf.

Given the large swaths of uninhabited forestland in Maine and in the Northeast as a whole, it is likely that these documented wolf killings and sightings represent only a fraction of the wolves actually present in the Northeast. For every chance encounter listed above, there is likely an additional number of wolves that are present but remain undocumented. It has been noted by the scientific community that “occasional dispersing wolves have been documented in several states in the western, midwestern, and northeastern US. Given that many of these wolves are not collared, there is inherent uncertainty as to occupancy status in these areas in the period between initial exploratory dispersals and first establishment of a breeding pair.” (Carlos Carroll 2019)

These events, which frequently have ended in the dispersing wolves being shot, highlight the need for continued federal protections and recovery planning to increase the odds for dispersing wolves to survive and recolonize former terrain.

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Posted on June 10, 2019

In 1999, Defenders published Places for Wolves: A Blueprint for Restoration and LongTerm Recovery in the Lower 48 States. The publication provided an assessment of the ecological regions that could support wolves and recommendations on policies and strategies to facilitate recovery in these areas. Based on studies showing significantly more habitat suitable for wolves in the contiguous United States, we published an updated version in 2006. Now we release a third version, this time in a new format designed to keep pace with research, politics, laws and other fast-breaking developments that affect wolves and our work. This new Places for Wolves lays the foundation for our wolf recovery and restoration goals by setting forth the ecological, ethical, cultural and economic reasons why protecting and restoring wolves is important. Our wolf recovery vision, goals, the science behind them and specific regional restoration recommendations are covered in a companion series of fact sheets that can be updated as needed to reflect our efforts to assure the continued survival of wolves.

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