Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park's rich scenery typifies the beauty and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Trail Ridge Road crosses the Continental Divide and looks out over peaks that tower more than 14,000 feet high. Wildlife and wildflowers call these 265,727 acres of Colorado's front-range home. Today, the park's sky-scraping summits overlook growing Front Range towns with surging populations. Each year, three million people visit the park, many driving its roads and hiking a trail system. With the help of online resources, the vast beauty of this region is within your reach.

Many web sites provide information to help plan trips, coordinate activities and events, and find appropriate lodging. Unlike towns like Denver, you will not find large chain hotels, but rather the likes of family-run lodges, hotels, and inns. Other sites offer search functions, allowing you to choose what activity you would like to undertake in order to discover how to go about doing it.

This park offers more than the rocky pinnacles of great mountains. There is also the Continental Divide, which runs northwest to southeast through the park on its course from Alaska to Panama, and about 150 lakes, some of which occupy pastoral, forested settings. Sites also list the names of local restaurants and their culinary specialties. No matter what you are seeking, you are bound to find a plethora of useful information via the World Wide Web.