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Colorado

From the valleys to its mountaintops,
Rocky Mountain National Park
encompasses many worlds.

Tucked into a scenic valley below the snow-capped peaks of Colorado's Front Range, Estes Park has existed as a friendly mountain resort and Rocky Mountain National Park's "front door" since the turn of the century. The spectacular scenery, wildlife and hospitality draws visitors back year after year. The town's main attraction is Elkhorn Avenue - a historic shopping district featuring a variety of shops and restaurants for all ages and interests.
A feature of Rocky Mountain Park is the marked differences found with the changing elevation. At lower levels, open stands of ponderosa pine and juniper grow on the slopes facing the sun. Gracing the streamsides are blue spruces intermixed with dense stands of lodgepole pines. Here and there appear groves of aspen. Wildflowers dot meadows and glades. Above 9,000 feet forests of Englemann spruce and subalpine fir take over. Openings in these cool, dark forests, produce wildflower gardens of rare beauty and luxuriance, where the blue Colorado columbine reigns. At the upper edges of this zone, the trees are twisted, grotesque, and hug the ground. Then the trees disappear and you are in alpine tundra - a harsh, fragile world. Here, more than one-quarter of the plants you will see can also be found in the Arctic.

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