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Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park Guide Book

by Kent & Donna Dannen (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park

144pp/maps
ISBN: 076272272X

With its towering peaks, picturesque waterfalls, pristine lakes, and stunning vistas, Rocky Mountain National Park offers visitors one of the country's great wild landscapes. This guidebook directs you to the best short hiking trails in the park. It includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for 36 easy-to-follow summer and winter trails that lead to some of the park's most scenic destinations. With hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including experienced hikers and families.

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Trails from the "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park" Guide Book
Displaying trails 1 to 20 of 36.
... Preview: The easy walk to Adams Falls rises gradually amid lodgepole pines and glacially deposited boulders. Adams Falls is within a gorge that evidently follows a geologic crack formed during the uplift of th ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Grand Lake, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.6 miles
... Preview: This easy path to a waterfall is one of the most popular short hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park. Along the way to Alberta Falls are many aspen that grew after a 1900 forest fire. Particularly wit ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.2 miles
... Preview: Calypso Cascades is a popular destination in Rocky Mountain National Park, but by starting at the Allens Park Trailhead, the hike to the cascades is free from the bustle of crowds until you reach the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Allenspark, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.2 miles
... Preview: The paved, mostly level trail around Bear Lake is very popular. Nonetheless, it offers many opportunities for unspoiled views as well as photographs of the landscape, close-ups of patterns on tree tru ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: This trail leads to Bierstadt Lake, a popular destination for backcountry travelers in Rocky Mountain National Park in both winter and summer. Frequently during the winter and spring, snowshoes or ski ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.5 miles
... Preview: Bierstadt Lake’s formation may be unique among the lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park: It rests in a basin formed by the merging of two lateral moraines, rock ridges dumped by glaciers as they flow ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: Some folks in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Grand Lake thought Sam Stone was crazy. Perhaps he would seem less so today, since Colorado has attracted a population with a higher-than-average percentage ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Grand Lake, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 7 miles
... Preview: You have an excellent chance of spotting elk along Cow Creek on the way to Bridal Veil Falls, particularly in winter, so if you have a telephoto lens and tripod, haul them along. The extra effort coul ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 6 miles
... Preview: Of the 297 bridges that carry hikers over streams in Rocky Mountain National Park, the bridge at the beginning of the Coyote Valley Trail must be the most elaborate, a humbler version of the magnifice ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Grand Lake, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: For much of its length across the level floor of Moraine Park, the trail is extremely easy to walk. Spoiled by the initial easiness of the trail, hikers may think the last half mile is rather steep. J ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.3 miles
... Preview: Because this trail gives hikers a great deal of spectacular scenery with relatively little effort, it is the most crowded path in Rocky Mountain National Park. Avoid crowds and see the trail at its be ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.6 miles
... Preview: One of the easiest and most pleasant trails in Rocky Mountain National Park is relatively uncrowded because of logistical complications in arranging transportation at both ends of the trail. All downh ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4 miles
... Preview: Today, from the first Saturday in April until road crews reopen Fall River Road after winter closure (probably early July), it is one of the few places in this national park where hikers can re-create ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 9 miles
... Preview: Like Fern Lake and Fern Creek, Fern Falls probably was named after a local lady rather than after the many bracken ferns that grow along the lower part of the trail, which follows a very easy grade al ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.4 miles
... Preview: Popular throughout the year, Gem Lake is a particularly good hike for folks eager to experience spring on the trail. In Rocky Mountain National Park, the Gem Lake Trail sees spring first. Here is the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.6 miles
... Preview: The first half of the hike to Lake Haiyaha follows one of the most popular (and crowded) trails in Rocky Mountain National Park. Avoid the crowds and experience the trail at its best by starting early ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.2 miles
... Preview: One of the most popular trails in Rocky Mountain National Park in the summer, the path from the Glacier Gorge Trailhead to Alberta Falls is pleasant for winter travelers. But the frozen falls are prob ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.6 miles
... Preview: Distracted by the rich scenery, hikers often give no thought to the riches sought by Lulu City founders and residents. Even history enthusiasts usually are more impressed by the unbankable riches of w ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Grand Lake, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 7.4 miles
... Preview: Mills Lake is named for Enos Mills, Father of Rocky Mountain National Park. Mills wrote many articles and books (some still in print) and gave many lectures urging the establishment of a national park ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Estes Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 5 miles
... Preview: Although dawn or earlier is usually the best time to start hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, this painful practice is unnecessary for a hike to Ouzel Falls, which does not exhibit significant mo ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park"
Meeker Park, CO - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.4 miles

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