Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

After last night's gloomy/stormy weather we're happy to see blue skies this morning. We get ready and leave by 8am to tour Rocky Mountain National Park. We stop at the visitors center and then take off on the Trail Ridge Road. Beautiful scenery and blue skies.

We stop at Rock Cut and hike the tundra trail. Incredible scenery and wildflowers and even some elk on the trail.

We stop at the Alpine Visitors Center for lunch and then hike the "huffing" trail up the hill. Again, incredible scenery and wildflowers and elk.

We continue our drive over to Grand Lake. The Grand Lake area has many dead pine trees from beetle damage. I guess this area was a beautiful area at one time, but the dead trees make this area somewhat "ugly".

We see more elk and some big horn sheep and more beautiful wildflowers on our return trip to Estes Park.

We also see a tourist illegally feeding the birds at one of the overlooks along Trail Ridge Road. One of the movies that we watched at the Visitor Center specifically told visitors to not feed the birds.

We get back to the campground, relax a little, have dinner, do some laundry and I try to get caught up on my travel blog while the wifi is working.