https://www.outdoorunc.com/region/rockies/ Rockies news from Outdoor Unc https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/the-season-s-first-big-mountain-snow-hits-the-west-this-weekend/https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/the-season-s-first-big-mountain-snow-hits-the-west-this-weekend/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:20:00 +0000Up to 18 inches in the Sierra high country and Colorado's San Juans and up to two feet in Utah's Cottonwood Canyons, with chain controls and difficult… https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/rocky-mountain-national-park-plans-a-prescribed-burn-near-bear-lake-road/https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/rocky-mountain-national-park-plans-a-prescribed-burn-near-bear-lake-road/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:20:00 +0000Rocky Mountain National Park and the U.S. Wildland Fire Service plan to burn about 437 acres on the park's east side, between the Beaver Meadows Visitor… https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/most-yellowstone-roads-and-three-entrances-close-november-1/https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/most-yellowstone-roads-and-three-entrances-close-november-1/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:40:00 +0000Saturday, October 31, is the last day to drive most of the park this year. Only the North-to-Northeast road through Lamar Valley stays open all winter. https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/white-nose-syndrome-reaches-glacier-national-park-s-bats/https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/white-nose-syndrome-reaches-glacier-national-park-s-bats/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:50:00 +0000The fungal disease that has killed millions of bats was confirmed on the park's east side, a first for Glacier County. A vaccine trial there is under way. https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/tularemia-found-in-two-dead-hares-in-glacier-s-many-glacier-valley/https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/tularemia-found-in-two-dead-hares-in-glacier-s-many-glacier-valley/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000One was on the trail to Swiftcurrent Falls. The park asks visitors not to touch carcasses and to treat their water. https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/going-to-the-sun-road-s-alpine-section-closes-for-a-weekend-storm/https://www.outdoorunc.com/trail-reports/going-to-the-sun-road-s-alpine-section-closes-for-a-weekend-storm/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000Avalanche to Jackson Glacier Overlook shuts at 7 p.m. Friday, with rain, snow and wind possible through Sunday. https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/montana-pheasant-season-opens-saturday-with-15-000-released-birds/https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/montana-pheasant-season-opens-saturday-with-15-000-released-birds/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000Nonresidents hunting public land or Block Management must wait until October 20 for most upland birds. https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/montana-is-already-in-season-with-a-rewritten-rulebook/https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/montana-is-already-in-season-with-a-rewritten-rulebook/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000Archery opened September 5, wolves and black bears came in on the 15th, and the commission changed how lions and hounds are handled. https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/the-wasting-disease-rules-moved-again-before-opening-day/https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/the-wasting-disease-rules-moved-again-before-opening-day/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000Colorado flips mandatory testing from deer to elk, Idaho redraws its unit list, and Delaware writes emergency rules after a first detection. https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/montana-lets-the-rivers-back-open/https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/montana-lets-the-rivers-back-open/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000Cooler weather at the end of August has lifted most hoot-owl restrictions, and the Madison has gone from closed to merely limited. https://www.outdoorunc.com/overlanding/loveland-drew-18-500-and-possibly-the-most-debuts-the-series-has-seen/https://www.outdoorunc.com/overlanding/loveland-drew-18-500-and-possibly-the-most-debuts-the-series-has-seen/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000Three days at the foot of the Rockies, 300-plus exhibitors, and a run of new campers and platforms shown in public for the first time. https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/nineteen-waters-restricted-and-the-season-is-tracking-like-the-worst/https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/nineteen-waters-restricted-and-the-season-is-tracking-like-the-worst/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000Below-normal snowpack and a hot summer have Montana running close to 2024, the most restrictive year the state has had. https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/what-the-grizzly-proposal-actually-changes-for-western-hunters/https://www.outdoorunc.com/hunting/what-the-grizzly-proposal-actually-changes-for-western-hunters/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000Not a season. Not delisting. But the tiered system decides who makes the calls in country you already hunt. https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/western-montana-joins-the-afternoon-shutdown/https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/western-montana-joins-the-afternoon-shutdown/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000The entire Clark Fork, the Bitterroot and a long stretch of the Blackfoot are now closed from 2 p.m. to midnight. https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/montana-closes-a-stretch-of-the-madison-and-puts-six-rivers-on-the-clock/https://www.outdoorunc.com/fishing/montana-closes-a-stretch-of-the-madison-and-puts-six-rivers-on-the-clock/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Warm outflows from Ennis reservoir are keeping the river from cooling overnight, and the drought policy has started to bite. https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/interior-moves-to-hand-grizzly-management-to-the-states-without/https://www.outdoorunc.com/public-land/interior-moves-to-hand-grizzly-management-to-the-states-without/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000A proposed rule would give Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington day-to-day authority over roughly 2,000 bears that stay federally threatened.