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Glacier Gorge and Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park
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Glacier Gorge and Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park

Photo: Andrew Parlette from Elkridge,MD, US · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Front Range alpine country: Bear Lake, Glacier Gorge, and Longs Peak at 14,259 feet. Trail Ridge Road is its own plate.

Field note

The National Park Service administers Rocky Mountain National Park, established in 1915. Bear Lake and Glacier Gorge are the high basins most walkers use. Longs Peak is 14,259 feet. Trail Ridge Road, the tundra highway, is a separate plate so this one can stay with the lakes and the peak. Maroon Bells and the San Juan plates are other Colorado mountains, not this park.

Views & peaks

Inside this plate

Rocky Mountain National Park

More alpine in Colorado: Maroon Bells, Mount Sneffels, American Basin, Sangre de Cristo Range, Uncompahgre Peak, Bridal Veil Falls.

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A day's country

The nearest plates, by the miles.

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