Howdy terrymo,
What Jorgy said sounds right on. Nobody' s gonna broadcast a specific park or drainage here, but someone who' s season is over in 15 might.
I hunt wyoming, but it' s all pretty similar. Nobody showed me how to do it. I just read and listened to all I could about elk. A lot of people on this bbs have excellent advice.
Took me 5 years to get my first. I hunted too many different areas. I sat on old sign too much.
Those first years, on the last couple of days, I' d be tired, cussing taking my only week off to get up way too early, go to bed too late, and never see any elk when I would. I' d be telling myself that I was never comming back when I' d stumble into those light colored rumps high-ballin it away from me in the trees. I never had a decent shot, but that was all it took to get me back the next year. I' m glad I did come back, and you will be too! Good luck!