An elk stands in a pasture in Cataloochee, one of a group of about 140 that now call this part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park home. In coming months, thousands of visitors will travel ...

CATALOOCHEE – With the fall breeding season for elk underway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, park officials are reminding visitors to keep their distance. Visitors are ask to make ...

As elk have entered the fall breeding season, known as the rut, from now through Oct. 31, fields in Cataloochee and Oconaluftee, in Cherokee, are closed to the public to protect people and ...

the Cataloochee Valley offers visitors a glimpse of beautiful scenery and wildlife rare for North Carolina — elk. Life is calming down again in the valley, as the elk finish the breeding season, ...

Fall in the Smokies wouldn't be complete without seeing the elk herd. The fields in Cataloochee were empty late Tuesday morning. But--if you're lucky, you could come across the herd there.

An experimental program to reintroduce elk to the Cataloochee Valley of North Carolina began in 2001. What started as 40 transplanted animals nearly 20 years ago has grown into a herd of an ...

Feb. 15—As the elk have expanded beyond the borders of Cataloochee Valley over the past two decades, their presence in Haywood County hasn't been without conflict. While embraced as a revered ...

There, Lowry is a volunteer in the Cataloochee Elk Bugle Corps. The 91-year-old retired Methodist reverend spends his days in the valley, a part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, serving as ...

One of the elk living in Cataloochee Valley of Haywood County looks across the valley in June 2013. Photo by Colby Rabon, courtesy of Carolina Public Press By Jack Igelman, originally published by ...

Over the decades since 52 elk were reintroduced to Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Cataloochee Valley in 2001 and 2002, wildlife biologists have longed for a statistically accurate count ...