Full Service Rocky Mountain Outfitter

Now booking for the 2012 hunting season

Stay at our High Country Cabin/Lodge - reserve on VRBO

Summer Activities

Horseback Rides Homestead Meadows Horseback Tours Secluded Cabin Hunting/Fishing

This is the ultimate back-country experience. We offer day trips on horseback either cross country or we also offer an exclusive horseback tour of Homestead Meadows - a rare glimpse into mountain life with abandoned homes high in the mountains. Our secluded mountain home is also available for rent for the day or nightly throughout most of the summer. We offer custom packages (day, moonlight, overnight, all-day excursions), with your choice of activities from relaxing by the fire to high octane remote summer sports. During hunting season, we are also a full service outfitter offering guided hunts that are unmatched in the area. Check out our Summer Activites page for details and booking.

 

Hunting with Estes Park Outfitters

Estes Park Outfitters Inc. is the only licensed Colorado Trophy Elk & Mule Deer, Archery & Rifle big game guide service with permits in Roosevelt National Forest in unit 20. We border Rocky Mountain National Park (a non-huntable area) and hunt in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area.

Our Colorado Elk and Mule Deer hunts are fair chase. They are fully guided during the Archery,  Rifle and Muzzleloader seasons for trophy Elk and Mule Deer.  We also offer limited, self guided drop camp options in Roosevelt National Forest (rifle & archery).  Our flagship hunt is a back country high camp in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area, bordering Rocky Mtn. National Park and is a 1 on 1 fully guided 6 day hunt (archery & Muzzleloader only).

What makes our area unique and a hunter’s paradise is Rocky Mountain National Park which holds one of the largest concentrations of trophy bull Elk in the Rocky Mountain west. The reason for this is the protection offered by the National Park which does not allow hunting within it's 265,000 acres since it's establishment in 1915.  However prior to and during the rut these trophy status bulls wander from the protection of the park into the surrounding areas in search of cows, food and territory.  The opportunity to take a 300+ B&C Colorado Bull Elk with us is very high.

Our Colorado Elk & Mule Deer private ranch hunts offer lodging in a comfortable log cabin situated within Roosevelt National Forest. Your hunt includes home cooked meals, beds, full bathroom with a shower, satellite TV, cell phone service. WiFi, and vehicle access. The lodge sits on approximately 20 acres of private property surrounded by Roosevelt National Forest for "right out the door", exclusive hunts nestled in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.  Within walking distance, we also have access to 2000 acres of private ranch property offering exclusive limited hunting.  This ranch is situated at 8000 ft altitude, featuring large open meadows of high mountain grass that draw herds of cow Elk, which in turn draw bull Elk.  Over 100,000 acres of Roosevelt National Forest, encompassing the Indian Peaks Wilderness area, border the eastern & the southern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park and surround the ranch and the lodge where you will be staying.

For the Colorado Trophy Elk and Mule Deer "do it yourself" hunter, Estes Park Outfitters Inc. also has established drop camps in remote areas of Roosevelt National Forest.  This area has difficult accessibility.  This means fewer hunters in that area.  All drop camps are fully equipped with everything needed for groups of  2 to 4 hunters per camp, except for food and personal gear .  The Wilderness Area (one on one) fully guided high camp is available for Archery, Muzzleloader, and 1st Rifle Elk hunts (weather permitting).  The Roosevelt National Forest drop camps are available for all Archery Elk and early Rifle Elk seasons and Mule Deer hunts.

Colorado Outfitters Association Member
State of Colorado Outfitters Registration #1932 &
Current member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation & Colorado Outfitters Association

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