A bull elk bugles in open meadows at Moraine Park on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park on Oct. 8, 2021. The Elk rut is the mating season for elk and begins in September and ...

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 ...

Rocky Mountain National Park will put the park’s annual meadow closures into effect Sunday to prevent the disturbance and harassment of elk during their fall mating season. Meadow closures aim to ...

Annual meadow closures will go into effect Monday in Rocky Mountain National Park to protect elk during their fall mating season. The safety measure is both to prevent disturbance and harassment of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Rocky Mountain National Park will close its meadow areas Sept. 1, representing the start of fall mating season for elk in the park. The closures will be in place between 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. for meadow ...

Rocky Mountain National Park will close meadow areas from 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. starting September 1 for elk mating season. Visitors are asked to maintain a distance of 75 feet from elk and refrain from ...