Where can we camp to hear wolves?

WyoTraveler wrote:
We live in NW Wyoming and way too many woves around here. Hopefully they'll be delisted. Wolves are dangerous if you are out ranching at night. Not only hear them howl but they are prowling around looking for a meal.

I was going to repeat a claim that I saw in Farley Mowat's book, Never Cry Wolf. But I knew that most of the book has been shown to be a lie. He claimed there has never been a documented wolf on human attack in North America.

Well like the rest of the book that was a lie too:

Wiki

They are extremely rare tho and almost all of them occurred in Canada or Alaska.

Isle Royale used to be a good place to hear wolves but I understand the wolf population there is in a nosedive from inbreeding.

Battleground Indiana
Friday & Saturday night are Howl nights.

Nearby State Park

WyoTraveler, are there any campgrounds near your local wolf-pack? Or if there are no formal campgrounds, perhaps a national forest that allows boondocking? (I am not asking for specific boondocking spots -- just the name of the forest would be great.) Thanks!

We live in NW Wyoming and way too many woves around here. Hopefully they'll be delisted. Wolves are dangerous if you are out ranching at night. Not only hear them howl but they are prowling around looking for a meal.

We hear them so often out moose hunting that sometimes we've had to move camp and cross a river to get away from them. Not that they were bothering us, but all of their howling at night was chasing the moose away. You'd never make it there in a MH. It takes the orange rig below in my signature to get there.

bill

Actually, I've heard them several times while camped in the White Mountains of Arizona! We have Mexican Gray Wolves that were introduced into this area in the 90s. You can boondock near Hannagan Meadow south of Alpine Arizona and you may get lucky and hear them.

This site has great information to help you in your search:

Mexican Gray Wolf Site

It's not easy. I spent many years in Alaska and heard wolves howl twice. Still hearing is much easier than seeing. I know many people who lived near wolves for years without seeing even one. Just tracks.

Yellowstone is a good start, wolves are still protected there.
Northern MN has native populations. I have heard them at Lake Agassiz Wildlife area. The sound of a whole den greeting the returning hunting pack is a cool thing to behold.

There is also the International Wolf Center in Ely, MN. They operate a wolf zoo with "Ambassador wolves" that can be seen. Whether they are howling or can be made to even snarl is questionable.

I would bet Montana, Idaho, and Washington may have wild wolves, also. Getting close to these guys or being around when they howl is another thing. I've been tracked by a single wolf in broad daylight and never knew he was there. I discovered his tracks in the snow on top of mine when I returned along the same path.

Probably up in the NE quarter of Yellowstone. There are two small campgrounds up there; if you're lucky enough to get in, you might get lucky and hear a pack of wolves calling up a hunting party. I've never heard them either.