Is it legal to try and drive elk in Colorado? The reason I ask myself and a couple of buddies went into a big canyon that rarely anyone goes into and has some thick spots and almost always has a few elk holed up in it. Well while we were in there we had a guy just start yelling and hollering at us for driving elk and how it is illegal in Colorado and how he was going to call the DOW on us. Was he right or just crabby because he wasnt seeing any elk either?