I want to see a moose.

Only place I've seen bear in daylight was Smokey Mountain National Park in Tennessee back in the 1970's. If you want to see bear or see what bears will do, go camping and leave a large pile of smelly garbage in the woods.

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Originally Posted by cstone

Three places we have always had good luck finding moose:

Long Draw Reservoir
Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge (south of Walden)
West entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park along the Colorado River

We have never gone to any of these places and not seen a moose. It often takes hours of walking or driving but I call the line between these three places "the moose super highway."

Good luck.

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We hunt the GMU's around Waldon, always see Moose in that area. East around Johnny Moore at times.

Closest I've been to one was up on Bull Mountain near Gould as I recall. A cow and calf passed within 50 yds in the thick timber I was working.

Probably seen more near Hwy 14 just tooling around the Gould - Waldon area than anything else.

Attachment 72973Attachment 72974I had to login to post a picture of one I saw last week, here ya go.

Congrats on the moose!



I'm not actively trying to find a bear unless I'm hunting. I missed one by 20 minutes this year during elk season.

We see moose in our neighborhood almost weekly. We've had them in the yard or driveway many times. There are lots in the Ned area also.

I had a close encounter with a bull/cow pair during muzzie season on Fairburn Mountain. I was plastered against a tree and they moseyed on by, maybe 20 yards away. Very cool.

Grand Lake- Near Grand Lake Cemetery off of Trail Ridge Rd.

There are moose in the Bobtail Mine valley on the other side of Jones Pass, probably inaccessible now though. I was about 20 feet from one once and another time I was about 75 feet from one and got the evil eye so I decided I was done hiking that particular trail that day.

There were lots around Bailey even before I left. CR 43 towards KZ ranch (on the way to the shooting area up there) is a popular spot.

Also, up CR 60 out of Grant (the road that crosses over to the Idaho Springs area). And Kenosha Pass.

I got a call one evening about a moose stuck in a fence along US 285 at Shaffer's Crossing way back in like 92 or so. I figured some tourist didn't know the difference between a deer and a moose because I'd never heard of anyone seeing one in that area. Rounded the corner and saw cars parked all alongside the hwy. And, to my surprise, there was a moose off the left side of the road inside a cow pasture. He wasn't "caught" in a fence...he could've easily stepped over it. Now they're seen almost daily up in that area between Conifer and Bailey and beyond.

YMCA of the Rockies/Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby. I've seen them walking around the cross country ski trails and parking lots there.

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See them often south of Hot Sulphur. Think the area is Church Park or maybe Church Ranch. My daughter has also seen some up at Kenosha pass.