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A bull elk chases after his herd during the elk rut in Estes Park on Sept. 10. Locals and tourists alike have begun to flock to the eastern side of Rocky Mountain National Park and areas surrounding ...

As a crowd of onlookers gathered on a bike path along a nine-hole golf course in Estes Park on a brisk morning in late September, Rodney Ford peered through a magnifying scope attached to a tripod. He ...

As the annual elk rut gets underway in Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, experts are urging tourists to use caution and give the animals distance after several videos from the popular ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. – Beginning Friday, annual meadow closures go into effect in Rocky Mountain National Park to prevent the disturbance and harassment of elk during their fall mating season, also known ...

Encounters between the roughly 3,000 elk that call the Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park area home and more than 4 million tourists who visit the park annually are inevitable. But Colorado ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. – Beginning Monday, annual meadow closures will go into effect in Rocky Mountain National Park to prevent the disturbance and harassment of elk during their fall mating season.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) As a crowd of onlookers gathered on a bike path along a ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — The elk mating period has begun in Colorado. Starting Sept. 1, Rocky Mountain National Park officials institute their annual closures to prevent disturbance and harassment of elk ...

DENVER (KDVR) — It’s the time of year at Rocky Mountain National Park where the aspens start to turn yellow, snow dusts the top of the highest mountain peaks and down below in the meadows, elk rut ...