{"id":897037,"date":"2026-09-15T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897037\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:28:09","slug":"mountain-lion-in-tree-shuts-down-westminster-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897037\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion in tree shuts down Westminster road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The watchful eyes of a carnivorous cat stared down from a tree in Westminster on Tuesday, prompting city officials to temporarily shut down a block around the animal as they worked to tranquilize and relocate it.<\/p>\n<p>Eaton Street was closed between 112th Avenue and 113th Avenue after a mountain lion was spotted lounging in a tree, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WestminsterPD\/status\/2099896553960051180?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Westminster Police Department announced on social media<\/a> shortly before 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The block, which appears to be in a residential area west of Sheridan Boulevard, reopened just before noon after Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers removed the mountain lion, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 3,800 to 4,400 mountain lions live in Colorado, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpw.state.co.us\/species\/mountain-lion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/a>. Most of the animals live in the foothills or in canyon and mesa areas, agency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The watchful eyes of a carnivorous cat stared down from a tree in Westminster on Tuesday, prompting city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,49,48,5731,23777,42469,5732,116686,4245,18924,122636,44,66,93706,310499,323],"class_list":["post-897037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-colorado-parks-and-wildlife","tag-front-range","tag-jefferson-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mountain-lion","tag-mountain-lions","tag-news","tag-science","tag-westminster","tag-westminster-police-department","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}