hey guys welcome back to my channel we are back in rocky mountain national park because
why not it's a beautiful beautiful park here and it's summertime and
it's a good place to be in the middle of summer but really exciting vlog today because
old fall river road is now open in rocky mountain national park and if you're not familiar with what
that road is it is actually the oldest first road created here in rocky mountain national park and
it just opened right before fourth of july so we will be driving the road today it is a gravel road
one way the starting point is right after like the sheep's lake horseshoe park area it is 11 miles
one way and it brings you all the way up to the alpine center never been on this road here in
rocky mountain so let's check out the old fall river road here in rocky mountain national park
we're driving this road at evening it's about 4:30 right now as we're gonna be starting our drive
and evening times are always a great time to see wildlife so we'll see what happens
we are officially on the gravel road so the first two miles of
this road is tar and then it turns into the gravel so we're officially going rustic on gravel
pretty little waterfalls and like rivers that are kind of going along this road
this is chasm falls and funny thing just like one week ago we hiked to chasm
lake right here in rocky mountain park when you're down by the waterfall it's so
cool and like crisp air coming off the waterfall it's like really really refreshing
we had a little pull-off here and you can start seeing alpine tundra we're climbing you can see
all the way down to where we've started in the valley wow it's gorgeous it's about four miles
that cabin there so just out like one of the corners there's a spot you can kind
of pull up and then you can walk back to that little wooden cabin cozy little cabin
in the woods can't go in it or anything of course but um it was really cute
all right we are at the alpine center we made it what a beautiful beautiful road we didn't
see any wildlife unfortunately we did see a few marmots and then we saw some elk in the
distance but they were like really distant so yeah but it's chilly up here it's like 58 or so
it wasn't like a super crazy busy like i felt like it was very nicely spaced we really didn't have
people writing us or we weren't writing people like we really kept our distance everyone did
really well so i highly recommend if you're okay driving on gravel
we're back on trail ridge road and right outside the alpine center are all the elk look at them
all right we have a huge elk laying here oh my goodness look at those antlers
this is probably the biggest elk we have ever seen here in rocky mountain park what a beauty
all right you guys thank you so much for joining us on the old fall river road adventure today
such a beautiful road and i don't know if i mentioned this but when we're on the road we did
about two hours on the road but we took our time we drove really slow got out sightseed along the
way um so we went slow so that's probably why it took us like almost two hours on an 11 mile road
that's kind of crazy but everyone was doing the same everyone was enjoying it moving real slow and
then of course we saw some elk on trailer ridge road it's like that time of night where all the
wildlife comes out we saw two mule deer earlier but they were like running really fast so i didn't
get any footage of them and if you've never been on that road be sure to go check it out when you
are in rocky mountain national park and there's mosquitoes right now there's a very small span
of time where you can actually travel on that road so if you're here between like july and august do
it thank you guys so much for watching if you have any questions be sure to let me know down in the
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