Have you seen a Colorado wolf in person? If so, you can report the sighting via the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Wolf Sighting Form at CPW.State.Co.US/wolf-sightings.

Click the link and scroll to the bottom of the page to complete your report. Details about the sighting, photos and paw print measurements are all helpful information for CPW to track the movement of wolves in Colorado.

“Due to the number of wolf sightings we receive, Colorado Parks and Wildlife does not comment on wolf movements outside of the monthly map published on the fourth Wednesday of every month,” CPW spokesperson Luke Perkins stated in an email to Sky-Hi News. “We receive hundreds of reports of wolf sightings per year and while we cannot validate every informal sighting, our staff carefully reviews all credible reports submitted through our Wolf Sighting Form.” 

In December 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife released 10 wolves in Grand and Summit counties after voters approved to reintroduce the animals to the state in 2020. In January 2025, the agency released an additional 15 wolves in Pitkin and Eagle counties. The state releases monthly maps showing wolf activity, tracks depredations and compensates ranchers who file a claim following a depredation. 

Since the state’s reintroduction began, nine wolves have died, but the population has swelled with four established packs. The Copper Creek Pack was established in Grand County in 2024 with five pups born. In 2025, the pack’s matriarch had another den of pups with one of the wolves released this year.

This year, three additional packs formed: the King Mountain Pack in Routt County, the One Ear Pack in western Jackson County and the Three Creeks Pack in Rio Blanco County. While Parks and Wildlife does not know how many pups were born to each, it has reported at least four in the King Mountain Pack and at least six in the One Ear Pack. 

“Receiving reports from the public, especially with high quality photos or video is extremely helpful to CPW,” Perkins stated. “The importance of these reports will only expand in the coming years as the wolf population grows and there will be an increasing number of uncollared wolves for which monitoring regular movements becomes more difficult … When taking photos of a paw print for the sighting form, it is helpful to include an item next to the paw print and measurements of that item to help better identify the size of the track.”