On my first day in Denver I got up early, had a really nice breakfast at the hotel and then met up with my tour guide for a full 12-hour day tour of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Rather than captioning every photo I'll just caption a few, and post the details of the tour from the tour website and then just let the photos speak for themselves.
Tour highlights:
- Drive north through the beautiful city of Boulder on our way to Rocky Mountain National Park
- Stop and explore the shops available in the mountain village of Estes Park
- Observe herds of elk grazing on rich grasses in Moraine Park
- Enjoy a wonderful picnic lunch while surrounded by mountain beauty
- Stroll around Bear Lake , a cool mountain lake carved out and dammed by glaciers long ago
- Travel 11 miles above timberline while reaching an elevation of 12,183 feet on Trail Ridge Road
- Discover the fragile alpine tundra ecosystem at Forest Canyon Overlook.
- Visit the 11,796-foot Alpine Visitors Center in conditions found at the Arctic Circle
- Cross over the Continental Divide and see the start of the mighty Colorado River at Milner Pass
- See deer, elk , and possibly moose as we exit the park via the glacier carved Kawuneeche Valley
Tasty breakfast!
Beautiful University campus in Boulder
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