While officials admonish hikers to carry bear spray in Wyoming’s Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, it’s banned in California’s Yosemite ...

Perhaps it was hubris for Rocky Mountain National Park’s founders to name this alpine reserve as if it was the ne plus ultra of a 3,000-mile-long mountain range. Then again, ask anyone to picture the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An elk with a very rare genetic trait has been spotted roaming around Estes Park. On Monday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted photos on Facebook of a unique-looking elk that ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — There are certain signs of fall in the town of Estes Park: the chill of morning frost, the reds and yellows of autumn leaves, and the thousands of elk that visit. The elk come ...

A close-up view of a female elk grazing along Glacier Creek on a sunny Spring day. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Bull elk grazing on golf course grass. Buck Elk Jumps Over Barbed Wire ...

A close-up view of a female elk grazing along Glacier Creek on a sunny Spring day. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Bull elk grazing on golf course grass. Buck Elk Jumps Over Barbed Wire ...

West of Grand Junction, bighorn sheep in Colorado National Monument are especially, er, horny. And in Estes Park, the roughly 700 elk that call Rocky Mountain National Park home are on the hunt for ...

Estes Park, Colorado, is essentially an urban elk preserve. Locals love the huge herd of elk that takes over the town a couple times a year, but resent tourists acting like idiots and getting too ...

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 ...

An elk stomped a human and caused injuries early Friday for the third time in two weeks in Estes Park, prompting warnings of unprecedented elk behavior during calving season at the Rocky Mountain ...

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.