Winter Sports Winter time in Estes Park and in Rocky Mountain National is amazing. There are many different activities to get involved with while visiting in the winter. The is endless amounts of backcountry within the national park. Snowshoeing, snowboarding, skiing, and cross-country skiing are just a few of the activities that can get your adrenaline flowing throughout the winter time.
Winter Hikes
Snowshoeing's popularity has risen significantly in the last several years. Mainly due to the easy learning curve. If you can walk you can snowshoe and that's it. Snowshoeing makes snow travel easier, by displacing your weight out over a larger surface area and by giving you better traction with crampon systems beneath the snowshoe. Four wheel drive for your feet, is what we'll call it.
Rocky Mountain National Park has endless amounts of terrain to get out and snowshoe in. One of the more popular areas to snowshoe in the winter is the Bear Lake area. This area can get alot of traffic, which in return will give you easier trails to follow. This area will "wow" you, each and every time you go. From Bear Lake, the are sevaral options to choose from, Bear Lake to Emerald Lake, is a great trail. This trail takes you to 4 different alpine lakes, Bear, Nymph, Dream, and Emerald. All this is done within 1.8 miles.
Let us help you...
Here at the Estes Park Mountain Shop we love the outdoors and get outside as much as we can to enjoy the beauty of our surroundings and lead that healthy, active lifestyle we love so much. To help you enjoy that same great lifestyle, we offer a selection of rental equipment to get you into the outdoors!
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"Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Snow bank in the cirque at the head of Fall River near the point where the proposed road to Grand Lake crosses the Continental Divide. Note the relatively smooth top of the range in which the cirques are cut. Snow is carried by the prevailing westerly winds from the high surfaces into the cirques. July 4, 1916." See more historical images from the area here.
snowshoe and that's it. Snowshoeing makes snow travel easier, by displacing your weight out over a larger surface area and by giving you better traction with crampon systems beneath the snowshoe. Four wheel drive for your feet, is what we'll call it.
