Getting too close to wildlife is always a bad idea, but doing so during mating season can be downright dangerous. A new viral ...

Estes Park, Colorado kind of acts as a home base for the national park. Elk are almost always moving through and around the city limits, and herds occasionally take over Estes Park. The people that ...

Four moose, including famed bull “Elk Antler,” were killed by speeding drivers in Grand Teton National Park over the past ...

Few sights in nature compare to the moment a bull elk steps from the timber — massive antlers catching the morning light, breath fogging in the crisp mountain air. The elk, or wapiti, is one of North ...

A Yellowstone outfitter and guide loves exploring the most remote places in the national park. His horses and mules not only ...

When imagining the start of fall in the Rocky Mountains, many people think of the cool, quiet air, the dabs of yellow and orange in the leaves, and the hints of snow starting to fall as late September ...

As summer winds down and autumn begins its quiet takeover, something wild stirs across America’s forests and valleys. Bull elk bugle, bucks chase does, and moose and deer stake their claims near dawn ...

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 ...

The bull died in the shade, and when I came to his side, I just about collapsed. I remember resting my forehead on his right antler, struggling to gather my breath in the thin air. The 4×4 was not the ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — As the leaves begin to change in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so does the behavior of elk. In the Cataloochee and Oconaluftee areas of the park, elk are ...

“The peak of the rut is almost always around the autumnal equinox, and if you’re interested in looking at animal behaviours ...

This story, “Double Trouble,” originally appeared in the September 1998 issue of Outdoor Life. SOMETIME EARLIER that afternoon I had given up. My aching muscles and discouraged spirit signaled the end ...