Elk spur a tourism boom in northwestern Pennsylvania
Elk spur a tourism boom in northwestern Pennsylvania by JASON NARK, Updated: March 13, 2021 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In rural Elk County, a mile from the $12 million Elk Country Visitor Center, a small herd of elk munched grass beside a new coffee shop called Elk Life. They were mostly females, known as cows, with a lone young bull nearby that sported two thin antlers called spikes. Some elk sat. Some stood. All were massive, some three times the size of whitetail deer, and none cared about the car idling a few feet away. Inside the store, a former Catholic church that features a large ...