Where to Start? Mike says his favorite national park is the one he happens to be in when asked the question. This is true for us right now about Rocky Mountain National Park; after camping there for a week, it's definitely one of our favorite parks at this point.
We camped for a week at Moraine Park campground on the East side of the Park. Above is a picture of the view from our campsite. The weather was terrific: sunny and in the 60s and 70s most days; cool at night (down to the low 40s, high 30s). Wildflowers were blooming all over the place and we saw lots of wildlife: elk, coyote, marmots and mule deer.
What struck us most about the park is how accessible it is. The Park Service takes its mandate very seriously to both preserve our wild and historic places and to make them accessible to the people and to the generations that come after us This is almost an impossible charge when you think about it: to preserve and to make accessible! The Park Service does a good job of it, though. We were in Rocky Mountain 4th of July weekend; the park was packed with people, but we were able to get to places that still felt like wilderness.
In addition to plenty of back country hikes, there are also a number of nature trails in the Park for people who are mobility impaired. We took our girls for a walk on a handicap accessible trail around a beautiful mountain lake. A couple of hundred yards off the lake, was a handicap accessible back country campsite! Photo above.
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