Estes Park is located in a high valley 35miles West of Loveland on highway 34. From the South you enter the valley via the Peak-to-Peak Highway, highway 7. You can also enter from the East on highway 36 from Lyons and Longmont Colorado. Denver is 70 miles to the East of the park.

Rocky Mountain National Park. West of Estes Village. Open Year around. The park features Trail Ridge Road, the highest continues highway in US Trail Ridge is open Memorial Day to Labor Day most of the time but can be closed do to weather. The road rises to 12,183 feet. Where snow drifts can be 28 feet deep. On the west side of the  park the terrain is almost completely different. Huge meadows abound and the Colorado River which headwaters here, runs through the main valley. Just outside the park on the west side is the Village of Grand Lake. Deer, Elk, moose, coyote, bear, cougar and big horn sheep call this park home. Link