hey guys welcome back to my channel or if you're new here welcome so today we are in state forest
state park near walden colorado and we're so excited to explore this area this is a whole new
area to us in northern colorado just north of like rocky mountain national park we have some really
fun hikes planned for today we're heading to the moose visitor center and just kind of exploring
this state park to check it all out and see what it's all about we are currently at the lake agnes
trailhead and you guys the drive to this trailhead it's a little rocky we had to put the jeep in uh
rock mode four wheel drive thought we were popping tires on the way like literally the rockiest
trail so very interesting little drive this morning but we made it
thus far there are no flat tires so that's a good thing this hike to lake agnes is a short hike to
the lake and you can hike around the lake um i think it's about 0.8 miles to get to the lake
and then you can hike as far as you want so we're just gonna get there and see how we feel and
hopefully we see some wildlife along the way we've seen lots of deer already this morning um but all
these mooses this is in moose territory so let's get started exploring state forest state park
we just left the trailhead there's a moose and a mama right in front of us they're far away we're
walking um to the side of her so we're not walking towards her because you want to respect wildlife
wow beautiful there's mama and baby oh my god
there she is oh
that's amazing literally our cars right there let's turn the corner
so there's some wildfire smoke going on here so a little bit of a hazy day but i'm digging it
it makes it moody and it is july 24th we got to the trailhead about 7 30 this morning and it's
like 51 degrees out so it's a little chilly little cool chrisp mountain air this morning
so
lake agnes this is gorgeous i wish i wasn't hazy
but i'm kind of digging it at the same time because it's like
different
so there's a trail that goes all the way around the lake here the trail is
under water so i don't think you can actually get around over on this side
unless you walked in the water of course so i'm pretty sure if the sun
is right now this would be like a really pretty teal glue because you can see it
just a few weeks ago we were up in wyoming to medicine bow and hiked medicine bow peak and so
that area is actually just north across the border of where we are now so um if you're in this area
and you're going to wyoming um go check out that vlog because the medicine bow area was absolutely
gorgeous and i mean this area is absolutely gorgeous i'm so excited to see more of this
at state park and it blows my mind that uh this is without state parks here in colorado it's like
it's crazy i just feel like every area should be like a national park or something but it's
pretty awesome it's really weird i've never seen one like that it's from mario brothers yeah the
Mario mushrooms that's what we're gonna call it all right next little hike we're at ranger
lakes trail and it brings you around like two different lakes here in the
park
guys this is so pretty vince is taking pictures you can see the trout and the lake that's how
clear it is this is gorgeous and check out that reflection you guys so calm beautiful
now since this is like a nature trail it's like super nice and flat and easy
and it just brings you around all these beautiful lakes here so
highly recommend if you want like a chill peaceful wash it's so pretty like really pretty
we are at the moose visitor center i'm excited to check this out i think this
is also like the park like visitor center which is good because we have the passport
book here for colorado so gotta get our passport to stand for the state parks here
this is made out of barbed wire you guys look at that how cool i love it
very cool there it is
i don't see any moose at the moose visiting center so you must know it's like the wrong place to go
don't go to the moose visiting center if you're a moose all right our second animal of the day folks
wow
free range here in colorado it's your stakes here yeah cow crossing
hey we are in like the north of mitchell lake area of the state park now
and they actually have the entire reservoir here drained right now because they're fixing
something or working on it so it was like totally drained um but right now we're on
the mountain view nature trail which is just like less than a mile loop trail
we got a gate it's part of the trail i think they have cattle maybe in here
so they got to keep the cattle contained views and there's cows in the distance see
so we got a deer right back there
so one thing the mule deer i just it blows my mind they're so tame he's just just looking at us like
what's up guys what's up we were in minnesota
and we saw a whitetail it'd be on the other side of the mountain by now they're so damier
lunch time it's almost one o'clock so this is our little picnic table and view here per usual we got
a sandwich some cherries we got from the farmers market in our last vlog and then i got dill purple
pringles oh my god i've had these forever they're so good zivia oreos duh always oreos
we're not done in the park we're on our way to another area
but check it we got some pronghorns all right you guys we are at the north sand hills area
um which is kind of part of the state park here it's way up on like the north side so you have
to like go through like walden and up and over we're literally by the wyoming border right now
as we're going to see these sand dunes this will be our first sand dunes here in colorado's
the jeep and sand mode this morning we had it in rock mode going to lake agnes it's been quite the
day we just put our flip-flops on because we didn't want to get sand in our shoes we parked
the jeep back there because we just we didn't want to climb these hills and get stuck in the
middle of the sand dunes then everyone ever tell you how hard it is to walk in sand up a hill
this is difficult gotta go barefoot it's so sandy wow you guys look at this
i'm doing an oh my god it is super sandy
did you like sand dunes yeah i know i know we don't have our four-wheeler anymore this would
be really cool though it looks fun yeah he didn't know we were coming here this is one area i didn't
tell him about so um after we had lunch i'm like well ready to go to the sand dunes he's like huh
you mean like sanders national park that's really far away like nope the one's in the state park
and that is a wrap here in a state forest state park such an awesome state park and we
are definitely gonna be back but now we're headed home we're gonna go through wyoming
and over back home to fort collins because it's much shorter because of the location
of where we're at so off to wyoming and back home so thanks so much for watching if you
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