In this Travel With Val report, Time Warner Cable News' Valarie D'Elia highlights a non-profit educational wolf sanctuary called Mission Wolf.

"Wolves communicate through howling, a lot of times they start howling every morning 5:30 in the morning, and they will howl until the sun is all the way up, they’ll howl when the sun starts to set," said Chase Zellner, Mission Wolf Staff Member. "Mission Wolf is a sanctuary for wolves primarily, but also for people."

Mission Wolf, a non-profit educational wolf sanctuary in the remote Colorado mountains, is accessible by car, with the last 14 miles on a challenging dirt road.

"So if people survive their journey, we will give them a tour and they can learn about wolves, learn about wolf dogs and how a wolf is different than a dog," said Kent Weber, Executive Director of Mission Wolf. "After the tour, we let people create their own adventure, if you want to camp out and sleep under a tree all afternoon you can."

On my visit, 36 rescued wolves were in residence, living inside 50 acres of fenced habitat.

“Every wolf that lives at Mission Wolf was already born in a cage," said Weber. "We would never put a wolf in a cage.”

Among the wolves are so-called ‘Ambassadors’ who are comfortable with humans.

"Just look right at him and you will notice he is laying his ears back, he kind of basically said how you doing, I’ll shake your hand, you're a big wolf, yet so many people don’t understand these animals they are so horrified of them," said Weber.

"I think they are trying to teach people that wolves can’t be treated like in movies, it’s not really nice to just take them like that, they don’t give them a choice," said one camper.

"They are only unstable because people don’t know how friendly they can be," said another camper.

I love this communication, looking him straight in the eyes, that’s daunting for me even as a dog lover.

"What I’ve learned is that wolves help people by learning communication skills," said Weber. "It resolves conflict and if you can learn to communicate with a wolf, you will be so much better with your family."