{"id":417645,"date":"2026-01-20T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:09:08","slug":"two-elk-take-a-dip-in-lake-loveland-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/417645\/","title":{"rendered":"Two elk take a dip in Lake Loveland on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loveland residents aren\u2019t the only ones enjoying the unseasonably full Lake Loveland this year.<\/p>\n<p>Two elk, members of a herd often seen around west Loveland, made it all the way to the lake on Wednesday, then took a dip into the waters. They were seen crossing Taft Avenue, from a neighborhood that they have been frequenting lately, to get to the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the waters of Lake Loveland are much lower this year after they have been drawn down for irrigation purposes, but this year, water levels are higher due to r<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reporterherald.com\/2025\/11\/10\/why-lake-loveland-is-so-full-and-boyd-lake-so-low\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">epairs at Boyd Lake.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two bull elk appear to look both ways before crossing Taft Avenue at 22nd Street on their way to Lake Loveland on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.    (Jenny Sparks\/Loveland Reporter-Herald)\" width=\"6222\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RHC-L-LakeElk2-js-0117.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1051887\" \/>Two bull elk appear to look both ways before crossing Taft Avenue at 22nd Street on their way to Lake Loveland on Wednesday.    (Jenny Sparks\/Loveland Reporter-Herald)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loveland residents aren\u2019t the only ones enjoying the unseasonably full Lake Loveland this year. Two elk, members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3832,4142,122121,2558,983,147949,79,201],"class_list":["post-417645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-colorado","tag-front-range","tag-larimer-county","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-loveland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}