Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the highest national parks in the country, with an elevation that spans from 7,600 feet above sea level to 14,259 feet (or almost three miles) above sea level.

Rocky Mountain National Park is an 1.5- to 2-hour drive from Colorado’s major Front Range ... One of the best times to glimpse bighorn sheep is late spring and early summer at Sheep Lakes, ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is home to herds of elk and bighorn sheep, but it also has a population of mountain lions and black bears. Although attacks are very rare, the National Park Service ...

Of course, accessible doesn't equal tamed. Visitors often have to wend their way through elk herds at the park's entrance, and bighorn sheep unexpectedly hop off ledges onto the road in front of cars.

Fremont County was home to the largest herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the lower 48 states — an estimated 2,500 animals.

Due to a sizable increase in visitors over the past decade, Rocky Mountain National Park has put a reservation system in place on what it says is a temporary basis. During the period from May 26 ...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (KRDO) -- In order to protect birds of prey in the Rocky Mountain National Park, officials enforce temporary closures in the park each year. Some of the raptors ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Researchers are looking at bighorn sheep in Death Valley National Park to study links between movement, genetics, and disease. Researchers say diseases pose one the largest ...

The park's wildlife, which includes elk, bighorn sheep and moose, roam the verdant forests and glittering lakes, guaranteeing that every trip to Rocky Mountain National Park will be memorable.

Rocky Mountain National Park is an 1.5- to 2-hour drive from Colorado’s major Front Range ... One of the best times to glimpse bighorn sheep is late spring and early summer at Sheep Lakes, ...