Rocky Mountain Elk
Fall in Estes!
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Short Films, Special Interest, 01-Jan-2022
Enjoy over thirty minutes of clips and educational shorts featuring this majestic animal. Elk are among the largest and most abundant wild animals in Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park. Every year Estes & Rocky are treated to one of the great events in nature, the elk rut!
Up Next in Fall in Estes!
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Elk Rut - September 9, 2023
We're back with more elk rut action in Rocky Mountain National Park! There's lots of bugling in this video as our resident bull elk has to fend off competing bulls trying to court his harem.
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Elk Rut - It's tough to be a bull
A bull elk has trouble keeping his harem close by while another bull distracts him.
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We found a Black Bear in Rocky
Stop what you're doing and watch this black bear eating berries and getting ready for hibernation in Rocky Mountain National Park. During the fall bears need 20,000 calories a day to gain enough fat to survive the winter without eating or drinking.
