Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park: Bear Lake & Beyond: the places
14 places from this post, mapped as a trip.
- AttractionFlat half-mile loop at 9,475 ft — the corridor's trailhead hub
- AttractionHallett Peak straight out of the water — the park's most photographed view
- AttractionEnd of the 3.6-mile lake staircase, walled in by cliffs
- AttractionMilky-turquoise since a 2022 rock slide, and far quieter than its neighbors
- Attraction1.6-mile round trip from Glacier Gorge — the easy waterfall
- AttractionNine-mile round trip with a waterfall scramble — the east side's best full day
- AttractionFlat accessible loop with a sunrise view of the Continental Divide
- AttractionHighest visitor center in the park system at 11,796 ft
- AttractionEasy level mile along the infant Colorado River — prime moose meadows
- Attraction1920s dude ranch at the end of a flat half-mile walk
- AttractionGateway to Adams Falls and the moose meadows beyond
- Attraction0.6-mile round trip — keep going ten minutes to East Meadow
- AttractionColorado's deepest natural lake, fronted by a boardwalk main street
- Food & drinkBakery open 6am for trailhead breakfasts; Neapolitan pizza after 11:30am