50 Best Country Songs About Elk
Top Country Tracks Featuring Elk in the Lyrics and Stories
There’s a strange sort of rush that hits when you catch an elk in the wild. Not the postcard version, but the way it really happens. Maybe you’re in the truck with the heater blowing stale air, or knee-deep in some mud that smells like it’s been there for centuries, and there it is. Antlers like crooked trees, breath fogging the air. The feeling is tangled up in awe and something heavier. Songs that tap into that moment pull from the same place, the space where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs all find a way to carry more than melody.
It’s never the clean, cinematic version of nature that sticks with you. It’s the slow creak of the forest when you know something’s watching. The sound of boots sliding on frost, a wind that keeps trying to push you back, the hint of danger sitting under all that beauty. Tracks that nail this tend to skip the glossy production in favor of something rougher. A banjo that sounds like it was pulled from a porch no one visits anymore. A voice that cracks where the lyrics lean in close. They’re not pretending to be easy listening.
Some moments in the wilderness feel messy in the best way, and the music that holds them doesn’t smooth over the edges. You can hear the ache of distance, the pull of seasons, and the quiet moments between encounters. They hit with a kind of raw energy that stays with you long after the last note. Here are the best country songs featuring elk.
Top 10 Elk Country Songs
1. 'The Rut'—Turnpike Troubadours
2. 'Wapiti'—Duke Oursler
3. 'Terra Firma: Elk Song'—Colorado Public Radio
4. 'Elk Song'—A Native Without a Tribe
5. 'The Bird Hunters'—Turnpike Troubadours
6. 'I'm Just A Country Boy'—Don Williams
7. 'Where the Wild Things Are'—Luke Combs
8. 'Country Boy'—Alan Jackson
9. 'Boy and a Bird Dog'—Colby Acuff
10. 'A Country Boy Can Survive'—Hank Williams Jr.
Great Wilderness Country Music #11—20
11. 'Rocky Mountain High'—John Denver
12. 'Call of the Wild'—Chris LeDoux
13. 'Sawtoothed Jericho'—Pony Bradshaw
14. 'Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day'—Luke Bryan
15. 'This Is My Prairie'—Corb Lund
16. 'The Outsiders'—Eric Church
17. 'Country Boy'—Aaron Lewis featuring Charlie Daniels and George Jones
18. 'Green River'—Creedence Clearwater Revival
19. 'Feathered Indians'—Tyler Childers
20. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
Country Songs About Nature #21—30
21. 'Cowpoke'—Colter Wall
22. 'The Truth Comes Out'—Corb Lund
23. 'Mountain Song'—Flatland Cavalry
24. 'Huntin' the World'—Colt Ford
25. 'Over Yonder'—Charles Wesley Godwin
26. 'Arkansas'—Chris Stapleton
27. 'Home On the Range'—Gene Autry
28. 'A Hundred and Sixty Acres'—Marty Robbins
29. 'I Saw God Today'—George Strait
30. 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'—John Denver
Country Tunes About Rural Life #31—40
31. 'Paradise'—John Prine
32. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
33. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
34. 'This Side of the River'—Brent Cobb
35. 'Little Foothills Heaven'—Corb Lund
36. 'Wildflowers'—Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
37. 'Oh, What A World'—Kacey Musgraves
38. 'Mountain Air'—Holler Choir
39. 'Whiskey'—Trampled by Turtles
40. 'High Lonesome'—Charlie Daniels
Country Songs About Outdoor Activities #41—50
41. 'Red Dirt Girl'—Emmylou Harris
42. 'The Cowboy'—Dwight Yoakam
43. 'Take a Back Road'—Rodney Atkins
44. 'Free'—Zac Brown Band
45. 'Wagon Wheel'—Old Crow Medicine Show
46. 'Blue Shadows On The Trail'—Roy Rogers and Sons of the Pioneers
47. 'When the Sun Goes Down'—Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker
48. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
49. 'Dirt Road Anthem'—Jason Aldean
50. 'I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)'—Brad Paisley
© 2025 Carson McQueen
