Female elk, called cows, are smaller weighing in at a mere 500 pounds. They measure 5 feet at the shoulder and 8 feet from nose to shoulder. Male elk, called bulls, can reach up to 700 pounds. It took my daughter running back into the cabin to find me before I finally caved in and went out to see. When he screeched again for the third time that he spotted an elk, I didn’t believe him. Just like in the traditional tale, our son tricked us twice by excitedly yelling that there was an elk in the yard. Except, in our case, it was the boy who cried elk.
It is famous because of the elk that occasionally roam the streets and wooded areas.ĭuring our first trip, we experienced our own version of the boy who cried wolf. The town is a quaint combination of rental cabins and local residents. There is also a winery and a few other local businesses. The cabin was within walking distance to everything in town which is mainly a hotel with a restaurant, a gas station and an ice cream store. The cabin we stayed at was right on the edge of town, along the Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek. We first visited the town of Benezette about five years ago. Mountainous Elk County is home to close to 1,400 Rocky Mountain elk. The landscape is a combination of farmlands and forests where Pennsylvania’s elk herd roams near Benezette, Pennsylvania.
Many photographers and spectators were watching in hushed silence watching the elk and hoping to hear the signature bugle of a bull.
We arrived as the sky was shifting from blue to sunset colors of orange and red.Ī group of elk called a harem slowly grazed on the grasses during the bewitching golden hour. Winslow Hill elk viewing area sits at the top of a mountain with a view of the lush meadow below.
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