This is as spectacular as it gets in the mountains. About an hour northwest from Denver and you're at one of the main entrances to an incredible experience. The drive through the park can take a few hours or you can spend days driving and stopping to take pictures. The park is split by the continental divide at its highest of just over 12,000 feet. That part of the park is open only from late spring till October due to the heavy snow fall. The continental divide is where all the water flowing from the eastern slops of the Rockies form the rivers flowing east and conversely, the runoff from the western slopes all form the rivers to the west flowing west.
Vistas are so varied including mountain streams, waterfalls, moose, mountain meadows, year round snow at the highter elevations and rest stops along the way for unbelievable panoramas and pictures. In driving through the park, I recommend coming in one way, like from Estes Park and exiting at Grand Lake on the western side of the Park. You can do a drive from Denver and through the Park and return as a day trip. Have a photo taken of yourself playing in the snow at one of the higher elevations in July. At least once in your lifetime you need to be high up in the mountains and look around you and down into the valleys below to appreciate the "purple mountain majesty," you sang about as a child in American The Beautiful.
Vistas are so varied including mountain streams, waterfalls, moose, mountain meadows, year round snow at the highter elevations and rest stops along the way for unbelievable panoramas and pictures. In driving through the park, I recommend coming in one way, like from Estes Park and exiting at Grand Lake on the western side of the Park. You can do a drive from Denver and through the Park and return as a day trip. Have a photo taken of yourself playing in the snow at one of the higher elevations in July. At least once in your lifetime you need to be high up in the mountains and look around you and down into the valleys below to appreciate the "purple mountain majesty," you sang about as a child in American The Beautiful.
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