What kind of wild animals have you seen while camping?

[Rodek]

My wife and I are looking forward to our camping adventures to start this spring. We will be traveling to various places throughout the country. I'm curious. What kind of animals have you seen while traveling/camping? Maybe you have a scary or funny story?

My Mom shared a story of her and my Stepdad camping and while grilling, a bird swooped in and stole a hotdog from their grill!

[Tunce the traveler]

Elk roam freely among the camp sites day and night at Fort Stevens SP. , Astoria, Or.

[Route 66 Traveler]

Coyotes, Fox, Skunks, Moose, Elk, Big Horn Sheep, lots of Deer, & Rattlesnakes. Plus, a few drunks who were pretty wild as well.

[Midnightmoon]

I've seen more Fox and Coyote in the last few years in PA than I have in my lifetime. Besides that, the typical PA wildlife.

Probably the most exotic thing that we've seen camping was a gator while in Florida. That's probably not uncommon for the Florida folks but pretty rare for us northern types.

[PaulB12]

Yup pretty common, those pretty little lizards, not chameleon ones, although just as common.
PaulB12
Skunks,possum,owls hawks,and many different snakes, pigs,deer,turtles various varieties, manatee,bear,fox,coyote, folding and probably more.

[Happy wife / happy life]

Bears , moose and eagles in Alaska. Coyotes,deer,pronghorn antelope,wild horses in northern California high mountain desert. Deer and bear all over the Sierra mountain range. Rattle snakes ,roadrunners,also some exotic animals on a hunting ranch in Texas that I don't have a clue what they were! Deer,elk and wild pigs in coastal mountain range of northern California.

[pconroy]

We had four large raccoons - very large - climb up on the back bumper and made a helluva racket at 2am.


I came out, hollered, flashed the light, clapped the hands...


They stopped and turned to look at me.
Then they looked at one another as if to say "He's pretty small, we could take him..."


And they went right back to trying to open the doors.

[LuckyDuck]

You can’t beat Yellowstone NP for extraordinary wildlife in their natural habitat. Bison, elk, pronghorn, wolves and grizzlies are just some. Late spring/early summer are good for seeing the offspring. These were in early June.

[Old and soft]

In the 70's we stayed in the grand canyon nat park. First night there a gentleman tried to sho away a baby bear with a broom. Mama bear removed one side of the gentleman's face. 10 year olds remember that kind of thing.

[Lake Huron]

Typical deer, song dog, fox, trash pandas, dumpster ducks, skunk, mink, bald eagle, owl, bats, ... drunks, white trash, illegal aliens,...

[SmokerBill]

Snakes

[CAG]

We hunt, we trail ride and explore so we see all of the creatures of the SW. Rattlesnakes, Javalina, deer, elk coatimundi, bear

[Happy wife / happy life]

Originally Posted by CAG

We hunt, we trail ride and explore so we see all of the creatures of the SW. Rattlesnakes, Javalina, deer, elk coatimundi, bear

I had to look up the " coatimundi " that is a neat looking critter!

[F350guy]

This was taken out of our back window this past September in Estes Park, Co. The big guy had a puncture wound above a front leg, most likely from fighting since it was the middle of the rut. He hung around our rv park a couple of weeks recuperating. Not an uncommon sight since it seems there as many elk as people in EP at times.

[CAG]

And I could keep adding. 😁

[RAurand]

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

You can’t beat Yellowstone NP for extraordinary wildlife in their natural habitat. Bison, elk, pronghorn, wolves and grizzlies are just some. Late spring/early summer are good for seeing the offspring. These were in early June.

We will be heading to Yellowstone this summer. Staying at Cody KOA.
Anyone been there?
Then heading to Mt. Rushmore KOA.

[Rustynuts]

One trip we had a wild turkey that decided I was it’s new best friend......followed me everywhere and hung around camp even though we never fed it anything

We also boondock a lot on a river bar and one day these Otters showed up and hung around all day.

[LuckyDuck]

Originally Posted by Rustynuts

One trip we had a wild turkey that decided I was it’s new best friend......followed me everywhere and hung around camp even though we never fed it anything

We also boondock a lot on a river bar and one day these Otters showed up and hung around all day.

Rustynuts, was the turkey at Bullards Beach? We’ve had them come into our campsite there.

[Rustynuts]

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

Rustynuts, was the turkey at Bullards Beach? We’ve had them come into our campsite there.

No it was further up the coast at Winchester Bay.

[gladecreekwy]

We have seen deer, elk, bears, coyotes, antelope, bighorn sheep, beavers, moose, eagles you name it. NW Wyoming