We drove down to Loveland and checked into a campground. It was the Carter Lake Campground. It had pretty level sites but only 30 amp electric. It was $31 a night which is cheap compared to other RV parks in the area. The high cost is due to the closeness to the Rocky Mountain National Park. After we got parked we headed for the Park. Twila and I had been to the Park when we took a trip West in 2004 and came back through Colorado on the way home.
There is one road in the Park that isn’t paved. It goes one way only from the East to the West and ends up at the Alpine Welcome Center. The road is called the Old Falls River Road. It isn’t a 4 wheel drive road but it is a dirt/gravel road all the way. It has some of the most spectacular views in the park.
I also took a picture of a waterfall that came down a very narrow chasm cut in the rock.
We also saw some Grouse on the side of the road. I was no more than 8 foot away when I took this picture.
After we got to the welcome center we found out they were re-surfacing the parking lot and we had to wait until they let cars through which was about once an hour.
The trip back was on the highest through road in the USA. It is over 12,000 feet high at the highest.
As we drove back we saw a large herd of Elk grazing on the side of the mountain below the road.
These are some more pictures I took.
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