Gazing at a blue-green alpine lake can make you feel thirsty down to the roots of your soul, especially if you've hiked all day over rugged terrain for the privilege of seeing it. It's not often ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the highest national parks ... and hop on the free summer shuttle to the trailhead. The Emerald Lake hike also begins at the Bear Lake Trailhead, but tends ...

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 ...

Early morning light fills Chaos Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park. (Dawn Wilson / Courtesy ... to follow the trail toward Dream Lake and farther onto Emerald Lake. Retrace the trail from ...

If you're looking for some great fishing opportunities that will allow you to see the American West, try this river canyon adventure.

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 ...

Rocky Mountain National Park requires a timed-entry reservation ... head back to the trailhead and follow the trail to Emerald Lake. This 3.5-mile roundtrip hike fits in a ton of incredible ...

Only 15% of the park’s annual visitors enter from the Grand Lake side. Two hikers set out from the Dream Lake/Emerald Trailhead on a bluebird day at Rocky Mountain National Park in 2015.

Rocky Mountain National park weather varies greatly throughout ... Nymph, Dream, and Emerald Lake Hike: Starting at Bear Lake Trailhead, this hike follows Tyndall Creek on a 3.2-mile trek, graded ...

Because the story is based on Google searches, it also ranks the most popular hiking trails in each park. No surprise that Emerald Lake at Rocky Mountain National Park is the most searched.

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).