The second day in Colorado was spectacular. On this image we traveled from FS Camp to Camp Willow, via Rocky Mountain National Park.
The day started out at the Meeker Park Overflow campsite, with a pleasant breakfast a short hike for the last pictures in yesterdays post.
Black Betty at the camp. The week before we got here there had been torrential rains across most of the Rockies so many of these campsites were in bad shape, and roads were in need of repair, but the truck handled all of that quite well. There were little passenger cars that got in to their campsites too so it wasn't anything crazy.
We rolled into Estes Park and stocked up on more ice at the grocery store and stopped at the visitor center to see if they had anything of interest. Nope. On to the park!
We took the
Trail Ridge Road which is entirely in the RMNP. It is amazing. We saw a few Elk along the way and a deer. Thats about it for wildlife.
So we went up and over and back down to the Grand Lake area. Our camp was at the Willow Creek Resevoir. Not sure if the resevoir is for drinking water or power gen. It was very pretty, once the rain stopped. There are Osprey living around the lake and it was fun to watch them fish. Sadly we did not bring fishing gear (we are vacationing in the mountains...fish dont live in the mountains right?) but there were a few blokes fishing around the lake.
Pictures dont do the RMNP justice. Sufice to say it is incredible and I would have loved to do some backcountry backpacking there.
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