Rocky Mountain National Park

National park · Larimer County

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"Most of this park’s 4.3 million annual visitors flock here in summer, so I go in September for fewer traffic backups on Trail Ridge Road (a must-do drive traversing treeless alpine tundra)." - Kelly Bastone

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