As previously mentioned my brothers and I visited Denver to spend the weekend together celebrating one of their impending weddings this summer. We enjoyed a baseball game at the Rockies stadium and a short sidestep to the Mork and Mindy house. Our next stop was Rocky Mountain National Park.
The park is approximately an hour and a half outside of Denver. The elevation is “Rocky Mountain high” which means fewer trees but no shortage of lovely views. It also means one gets out of breath practically climbing out of their car. But perhaps I just need to exercise more…The weather was cool and snowy in parts.
We viewed Big Horn Sheep, Elk, Coyotes/Wolf, and Deer. The wildlife was ample and the number of visitors was low. It seems the high season is in the warmer weather months which was lucky for us. We encountered a number of intrepid visitors at Bear Lake where a short walk provided the visitor with a lovely frozen lake view. People were skiing, snowboarding, and snow shoeing. We managed to slip and slide our way there just in tennis shoes.
A highlight for me, rather randomly, was the Rocky Mountain National Park visitors center. It boasted lovely lines and architecture that seemed peculiar to me for being a government building. While wandering around reading plaques I realized the interesting architecture was because a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright created the building.
What’s your favorite National Park in Colorado or anywhere for that matter? Has anyone visited any lovely Frank Lloyd Wright properties they particularly enjoyed? I hope to see many more in my lifetime!
Stanley House on the way to the park
It’s still winter in Colorado for sure. Not a spring flower to be seen anywhere.
The animals do not seem to be too afraid of the visitors.
Bear Lake.
Frank Lloyd Wright inspired visitor’s center
If you enjoyed this post you might enjoy my other Rocky Mountain Posts…
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I love visiting parks in their off-seasons. I went to Grand Canyon in February a couple years ago and it was just amazing to have the place practically to myself (and Choppy). It was a cooler than it would be during the summer, but I will trade a little snow for the solitude!
As for Rocky Mountain, I haven’t been there since I was a kid, but I am hoping to get the husband out to Colorado and Utah soon – he hasn’t been to either and is thus missing some amazing parts of the U.S.!
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If you go to Utah you MUST go to arches national park! I definitely wish I had more time in Colorado and more time with my brothers but the time we did have was fun!
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Arches is great! I went there the first time as a kid with a bunch of family friends and it is still one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on. I can’t wait to go back!
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I also went to the Grand Canyon in winter once. It was soooo cold with the freezing wind whipping up over the canyon rim. But it was glorious to see it in the snow and without the crowds for sure.
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I didn’t have the winds – there was just a touch of snow, and just about at freezing so not that cold. I am guessing I might not have liked it so much if the weather had been much worse (then again, I had just been snowed on in Tucson, so it was better than that!).
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