Last year we started having a bear climb the big fir tree in front of our house at night. It didn’t make a lot of noise, but it kept breaking limbs off the tree. Some of them were several inches in diameter. In the morning I would find a bunch of big branches in the yard and bear droppings at the base of the tree. I put up a fence and game camera. The deer still just jump right over the fence but the bear stopped visiting after I put it up. We live in town, but we have a green area directly behind us and are not far from a much larger wooded area.
A couple years ago they had to relocate a bear that got lost and walked right through downtown during the middle of the day.
That happened in our town once. Except that it took a slight detour and went shopping first at the downtown Penny's.
Colorado?