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 ...

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 ...

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 saw an “unprecedented” number of elk attacks that within a cluster of days sent three people — two of them children — to the hospital. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife said aggressive ...

Occurred on, 2025 / Estes Park, Colorado, USA Info from Licensor: "This male elk is showing off his strength during the rut in Estes Park, CO on, 2025." ...

Early Friday morning, a woman walking her dog near the western end of Lake Estes became the third person in just over a week to have a violent encounter with one of the town’s iconic elk. According to ...

A cow elk attacked a 4-year-old boy at the Stanley Park playground in Estes Park on Monday afternoon, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said on Tuesday. This is the second cow elk attack on a young child in ...

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 ...