I love this place we're in Rocky Mountain National Park
right now. a wonderful place to bring your family
today on Colorado martini living
you need to count how many times I say beautiful in this video
Here is number one. it's beautiful
so it's a beautiful day in Estes Park Most of the tourists left last
night. it just amazed us how many people come up here for the 4th of July just to
watch the fireworks but we're looking on to Rocky Mountain
National Park it's just above the city of Estes Park, Colorado and we're gonna go and check it
out today so once you get into Rocky Mountain National Park make sure you
look to the left and you look to the right because you are looking for elk and
bighorn sheep there's quite a few elk in the park it's
your best chance of finding elk year-round but if you're outside of the
park usually the roads coming into Rocky Mountain National Park you can see a lot
of elk and especially in the fall there's two roads that will bring you in
to Rocky Mountain National Park from Estes Park and that's highway 34 and
highway 36 we prefer coming in 34 because we don't
have to go through the downtown area and we go right down to the Stanley kind of
up and around and we do a loop and come out the 36 there's other entrances into
the park but those are the two big main entrances entrance that's on highway 34
when of your first stop should be shaped like it's not really a lake it's more of
a meadow after the winter rains also a great place to find bighorn sheep
they're here at different times of the year and if you're here during the airs
of a ranger where they have some interpretive walks
that talk about the sheep and it's just wonderful and it's one of my favorite
places to take it pictures and have a picnic we we stop here and everything
before we go on the rest of the park it just a wonderful place
there is no picnic tables here but we usually just see down the back of the
car because it's just so beautiful that it was just no matter where you sit it's
wonderful without let's take a look at you like
during the summer months you cannot walk out to the graphed area because it's
protected because of wildlife but in the winter time the signs usually aren't up
and you can walk around and it's just beautiful and here comes mr. martini
well hello mr. martini I'm mr. prairie dog today
okay now the one thing about Rocky Mountain National Park there are no
lodges here like there are in our other national parks but there's plenty of
campgrounds another thing about Rocky Mountain National Park there's many
visitor centers that you can stop by and take a look at some of their beautiful
displays and talk to a park ranger on what hiking trail is best for you so
when you come and enjoy the park make sure that you stay on the trails and not
trample through the meadows hint hint and pick the wildflowers hint hint
it is illegal to pick the wildflowers remember this is the habitat for
wonderful animals and you're stopping on their food
to get around the park is there plus system
there's bus stops and many of the major areas so just pass sheep lake is the
Fall River Road area there's a wonderful waterfall kind of water structure back
in here the parking can be really bad in the summertime so come early in the
morning plus your pictures are the best in the morning
there's also Fall River Road back here it's close to cars but you can hike it
and possibly ride your mountain bike back there so it is a beautiful area
back here it's one of our favorites and as you can see it is absolutely
beautiful
so we're at the alluvial fan in Rocky Mountain National Park starting to rain
very common here too rain in the afternoon in the summer but
where it takes one of the trail subnets really cool so let's go take a look
so this trail we're actually going over the rocky section but there is a trail
and is rocky you could probably take a wheelchair but it is has a steep incline
so you could get it to a certain point
so as you see you can not get a wheelchair up here or if you have issues
walking I wouldn't recommend coming up here all
the way so we're walking up to where we can see the waterfalls better well the
trail starts getting rockier where you can climb the rocks and go up to the
waterfall so as you can see you have to have that good hiking boots it's not a
flip-flop trail three where your flip-flops going in the Park Lane as you
can see moves in very quickly always make sure that you have a place or some
type of light rain jacket thunder lightning can roll it very quickly so if
you go hiking and you're going out far make sure that you're ovulate back by
noon or get on your way back by noon because you know where to get caught in
a lightning storm which is very common here in Colorado it's afternoon they
usually start around three or four o'clock it was blue sky about an hour
ago and as you can see they move very fast and especially their
Rocky Mountain National Park so this is the old Fall River Road and this was the
original Road that took you across the park it says road closed but that's just
two vehicles but as you can see some people are hiking on it and you can also
ride your bikes if you want I challenge you Roger bike up that hill so it's old
folk we walk over in the Indo Valley Snoop Dogg speed endo Valley what he
calls weed oh don't call sweet is endo you do we such an education or in the
end o Valley we're here to educate there you the
snoop so we're going to be ascending of this mountain here to get to the other
side of the park and that's where the turnoff for Trail Ridge Road which is
not for the faint at heart so if you have problems with vertigo in
and we're gonna meet up with highway 36 and then we're gonna go down a fair lake
road which is one of our favorites to go down so let's go take a look okay
so we've just turned off to the road to highway 36 and it's a very popular area
to park and go hiking and you can see why it has a very Alpine look to it and
it's like being in the out three cone
he's doing his Big Horn now
now if you do go up Trail Ridge Road the views are spectacular its above the tree
lines science program at the highest road in
America and it is absolutely beautiful up there
and there is a visitor center also
so this is moraine Park this is where we have the best luck finding a large elk
herd especially in the fall they're out in this meadow on the south side of the
road some of my best elk pictures have been
taken in this meadow
so this is Marine Park that elk a lot of times are out in this meadow there's a
creek that goes through here and it's just beautiful it's a wonderful place to
picnic but today there's no elk
and there is a campground further down this road
so we're on the road going back to Cub Lake it's absolutely beautiful back here
it's a nice place to sit by the creek go fishing there's a campground back here
but it's it's just absolutely beautiful this is the entrance on highway 36 we
find it to be a little more crowded fish you can see why because everybody goes
through the town downtown area of Estes Park on Highway 36 so we always come in
34 and we're going the opposite direction of all these people so that's
our big suggestion is come in highway 34 it's the highway that's right next to
the Stanley Hotel and then exit on highway 36 going back to Estes Park
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yeah that's why work going he's going it going we're smart we get up and do to
park in the morning so it's 11 right now in the morning and you can see and it's
a holiday weekend of course so this is what you're in store for and there's not
a ton of parking in the park so take a shuttle into the park you can pick them
up at the Visitor Center in Estes Park you can also pick them up at the visitor
centers that are just outside the park entrance make sure when you're driving
around that you look for elk and bighorn sheep they're what's most of them
abundant in this park park I see a wild animal right now make sure to check out
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