A popular hike in the iconic Rocky Mountain National Park is now even busier after a natural event caused Lake Haiyaha to suddenly and rapidly change colors. Lake Haiyaha, located just beyond the ...

It was of a lake from back in Colorado, back at Rocky Mountain National Park, where she serves as chief of resource stewardship. She knew the lake, Haiyaha, an Indigenous word roughly translating ...

If you’ve only ever visited Rocky Mountain National Park in the summer or fall—when hiking in the Bear Lake corridor more closely resembles the sluggish shuffle through airport security than a waltz ...

“We have two wonderful communities that are right at the doorstep of Rocky Mountain National Park,” Patterson said. “Estes Park on the east side and Grand Lake on the west side.” She added ...

You'll explore the park's east side near Estes Park, as well as the west side near Grand Lake. Rocky Mountain National Park requires a timed-entry reservation in addition to your park pass during ...

Bear Lake Road is less than a mile from the entrance on your left. Follow it 8.7 miles to the trailhead. Entry to Rocky Mountain National Park and Bear Lake Road, specifically, require a timed ...

Perhaps it was hubris for Rocky Mountain National Park’s ... Timed Entry (good for most of the park) and Timed Entry Plus (grants access to the popular Bear Lake Road destinations).

Hikers make their way along Bear Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado, on Friday, May 23, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post) “We have been monitoring ...

A popular part of Rocky Mountain National Park has a new look. Park officials and advocates recently cut a ribbon over a new and improved boardwalk encircling Sprague Lake. The occasion formally ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — This summer, Koren Nydick was scrolling Facebook when she stopped at a photo. It was of a lake from back in Colorado, back at Rocky Mountain National Park, where she serves ...

which connects Grand Lake and Estes Park. The best time to visit Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) is typically fall, when everything is still open but the summer crowds have dispersed.