Sounds like they are using the road as a kind of safe harbor if you ask me if they feel comfortable running up the road.
One of those Milky Way trucks coming off White Pass could probably make elkburgers for us all if it zigged when he zagged, lol.
Yes it was prolly within a half mile or so from the bridge in the easterly direction I saw the Elk, moving towards the south towards the big pasturelands in the direction of MSH, but going nowhere fast until it saw motion coming towards it with four tires.