Outside Denver - Part 1!

Outside Denver – Part 1!

Denver is an amazing city that has everything you could need…almost. Colorado has a lot to offer outside Denver – like our mountains! The mountains bring people from all over the world to Colorado, but there are so many amazing places to go – how are you going to choose?

I am here to help!

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is Colorado’s most famous park. It is HUGE. The park is 415 square miles in size, with over 300 miles of hiking trails. It is home to a lot of Colorado wildlife, like bears, deer, elk, moose, coyotes, marmots, and all kinds of birds. It has thick forests and barren alpine tundra landscapes. If you are looking for incredible scenery, this is it!

The park is also home to the highest National Park Service building in the contiguous United States (all the states minus Alaska and Hawaii). The Alpine Visitors' Center is at about 12,000 feet above sea level, and is only open for 3 months every year! From the viewing area, you can use binoculars to see the herds of elk grazing in the fields below. You can reach the Alpine Visitors' Center from Trail Ridge Road, a drive that takes you above treeline (where tall trees stop growing) into the tundra. Tundra is a landscape that is so cold most of the year that only a few plants and no trees can grow. If you visit the park in the Spring and are lucky, you will get to see the tundra flowers bloom, like these Alpine Forget-Me-Nots!

So if you love hiking, seeing wildlife and experiencing Colorado's best views, go to Rocky Mountain National Park this Summer!

Kat