Adjoining the Village are the administration headquarters for the fifty-four million dollar Colorado-Big Thompson Diversion project, which is to divert the waters of the Colorado river from the western to the eastern slopes of the Continental Divide by means of a 13-mile tunnel through the Rockies.
Outstanding and nationally known boys’ and girls’ camps where young people may enjoy healthful surroundings under sympathetic instructors offer campcraft, woodcraft, mountaineering, natural science and horsemanship.
During the summer Estes Park is the center of activity for many thousands of people, its local shops and stores economically supplying their every need. These stores are up-to-date and stocks are complete. Prices are moderate. Many of these stores maintain a daily delivery service to outlying districts.
Come up here for a day, a week or a month and you’ll go back home with the gallery of your mind filled with the pictures these hills and canyons and aspens, slopes and gulches and glaciers have hung upon its walls.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park, adjoining Estes Park Village, embraces 405 square miles of unsurpassed mountain scenery, including 65 towering peaks over 10,000 feet high, 150 highland lakes, scores of rushing streams, babbling brooks and dashing waterfalls. Here the natural attractions are so varied a visitor is almost bewildered by the wide choice of vacation endeavors which could fill an entire summer.
Visitors are urged to take advantage of naturalist services. Schedules of hikes and nature walks, as well as evening campfire discussions, are announced weekly. Three museums on geologic, historic, biologic and other aspects of the Park are open throughout the season. Auto caravans, led by naturalists to outstanding areas too far for hiking, bring visitors to rare regions of scenic wonder.
Elkanah Valley and Longs Peak from Twin Sisters.