{"id":22840,"date":"2025-06-28T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22840\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:43:09","slug":"two-bears-spotted-in-el-paso-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22840\/","title":{"rendered":"Two bears spotted in El Paso County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) &#8211; KRDO13 viewers sent in early morning photos and videos of bears on Saturday morning. Both say the sightings happened around 8 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>One was spotted on the west side of Colorado Springs near Old Colorado City. <\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BEAR.mp4\" class=\"mcloud-attachment-1625668\"\/>Courtesy of Melissa Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Another viewer spotted what appears to be a younger bear strolling through a neighborhood near the Colorado Springs Country Club. <\/p>\n<p>They told KRDO13 they called the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) to alert them of the creature. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BEAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1625670\"\/>Courtesy of Nicole Van Liew.<\/p>\n<p>CSPD confirmed to KRDO13 that they received a report of a bear in that area near Templeton Gap Road and North Union Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>Police contacted wildlife officials to relocate the bear. <\/p>\n<p><strong>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KRDO NewsChannel 13 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/about-us\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) &#8211; KRDO13 viewers sent in early morning photos and videos of bears on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-22840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}