Searchers at Rocky Mountain National Park were dealing Monday with deep snow and frigid temperatures in their hunt for a 70-year-old Tennessean who has been missing since Thursday.

Every year, visitors from around the world are drawn to the soaring peaks, the green valleys, and the charismatic wildlife of Rocky Mountain National Park. In 2018, visitation hit a peak of its own, breaking all previous records.

Rocky Mountain National Park is offering up to a $2,000 reward for information regarding elk poaching incidents that occurred in the park in September of 2018.

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado will have limited road access by vehicle but will remain accessible to pedestrians and bicycles during the lapse in federal appropriations. Due to road conditions from snowfall Saturday and blowing and drifting snow and ice combined with the inability to snowplow, sand, or otherwise maintain the roads, gates are closed past the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center on U.S. 36, past the Fall River Entrance on U.S. 34, past the Wild Basin Entrance on the Wild Basin Road and at the Grand Lake Entrance on U.S. 34.