There has been an uptick of people capturing images and having unexpected in person close encounters with mountain lions.

DENVER (KDVR) — An elusive mountain lion was spotted Saturday evening in unincorporated Arapahoe County near Greenwood Village and Denver, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday.

The mountain lion was tracked and trapped later that day ... The lion was tracked from the backyard to Highway 75 when the tracks could no longer be followed. Because the lion entered a fenced ...

This is the first deadly mountain lion attack in California in 20 years ... "You see their droppings, you see their footprints," said Melinda Smith who comes up to Georgetown often from Grass ...