USA 🇺🇸, Colorado, Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the best areas of rock climbing and mountaineering in the United States. Its area is relatively small – the park is organized on a small section of a huge chain of Rocky Mountains. Rocky Mountain is located in Colorado, the nearest town is Estes Park. The park with an area of 1078 km2 was founded in 1915.

Rocky Mountain Park has 720 km of rivers and streams, 150 lakes. In addition, there are 60 peaks, the height of which exceeds 3,700 meters. The highest of them is Longs Peak.

There are grizzly bears here. In addition, beavers, cougars, coyotes, wolves, deer and moose live in the protected area. Also in the national park you can see a thick-horn, wapiti, squirrel and hummingbird.

Rocky Mountain National Park has more than 370 hiking trails, differing in their complexity. Many of them can be ridden by horses. Hiking trails pass through rocky mountains, tundra, alpine lakes, aspen groves, meadows and forests.