Qué hay en Parque nacional de las Montañas Rocosas, Estados Unidos, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Winter / Christmas break en Estados Unidos, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente)), Ranger-led snowshoe walks (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente)), Ranger-led snowshoe walks (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Frozen Dead Guy Days, Spring break en Estados Unidos

• Festival

  Frozen Dead Guy Days

  27–29 MarGran festivalMucha gente

  The offbeat winter festival of coffin races, a polar plunge and costume balls moved from Nederland to Estes Park and the Stanley Hotel in 2023, and now takes over the town on a late-March weekend. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente)), Ranger-led snowshoe walks (15 Dic – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Memorial Day weekend

• Norma

  Timed entry reservations

  22 May – 18 Oct · normalmenteReserva prontoMucha gente

  Two permits from late May to mid-October: one for the Bear Lake corridor between 5am and 6pm, one for the rest of the park between 9am and 2pm. They release in monthly batches and the popular days go in minutes. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Memorial Day weekend

  23–25 MayFiesta nacionalMucha genteReserva pronto

  Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, opens the summer travel season: over the long weekend campsites and lodging book out, roads are slow, and parking at the most popular spots fills early in the day. Fuente ↗

• Apertura

  Trail Ridge Road season

  25 May – 15 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de senderosCierres

  The highest continuous paved road in the country is ploughed open around Memorial Day and closed by the first serious October storm. Between those dates it can still shut for a day of snow in July. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Summer peak

• Festivo

  Summer peak

  15 Jun – 20 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha gente

  Nearly all of the park's four million visitors come in these ten weeks, and most of them want the same three trailheads. The park-and-ride shuttle on Bear Lake Road is full by eight. Fuente ↗

• Naturaleza

  Tundra wildflowers

  25 Jun – 5 Ago · normalmenteFlores silvestres

  The alpine tundra either side of Trail Ridge flowers for a few weeks in July, low to the ground and easy to miss from a car. It is the closest thing in the country to Arctic ground.

Sigue en marcha: Timed entry reservations (22 May – 18 Oct (normalmente)), Trail Ridge Road season (25 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Summer peak

• Riesgo

  Afternoon lightning season

  5 Jul – 5 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de tormentas

  Storms build over the divide almost every summer afternoon and the tundra is the highest ground for miles with no shelter on it. The rule here is to be off the high trails by noon. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Timed entry reservations (22 May – 18 Oct (normalmente)), Trail Ridge Road season (25 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Summer peak (15 Jun – 20 Ago), Tundra wildflowers (25 Jun – 5 Ago (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Summer peak

• Festivo

  Labor Day weekend

  5–7 SepFiesta nacionalMucha genteReserva pronto

  Labor Day, the first Monday of September, is the last big getaway of summer: the long weekend books out campsites and lodging and fills parking early, and families thin out quickly once it has passed. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Timed entry reservations (22 May – 18 Oct (normalmente)), Trail Ridge Road season (25 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Summer peak (15 Jun – 20 Ago), Tundra wildflowers (25 Jun – 5 Ago (normalmente)), Afternoon lightning season (5 Jul – 5 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Labor Day weekend

• Naturaleza

  Elk rut

  10 Sep – 20 Oct · normalmenteÉpoca de berreaMucha gente

  Bulls bugle in the Moraine Park and Horseshoe Park meadows at dawn and dusk through the autumn, and the traffic jams that follow are managed by rangers. Keep well back; people get hurt most years. Fuente ↗

• Naturaleza

  Aspens turning

  18 Sep – 8 Oct · normalmenteColores de otoño

  The stands along Bear Lake Road and up in Kawuneeche Valley turn gold in the last ten days of September, usually a week before the elk rut peaks.

Sigue en marcha: Timed entry reservations (22 May – 18 Oct (normalmente)), Trail Ridge Road season (25 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Afternoon lightning season (5 Jul – 5 Sep (normalmente)), Labor Day weekend (5–7 Sep)

Máxima afluencia — Timed entry reservations, Elk rut

• Riesgo

  Avalanche season

  15 Oct – 15 Jun · normalmente

  From mid-autumn into early summer steep snow slopes above popular trails such as Emerald Lake can slide. Check the Colorado avalanche forecast, and in spring cross snowfields in the morning before they soften. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Timed entry reservations (22 May – 18 Oct (normalmente)), Trail Ridge Road season (25 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Elk rut (10 Sep – 20 Oct (normalmente)), Aspens turning (18 Sep – 8 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Catch the Glow parade, Thanksgiving break en Estados Unidos

• Festival

  Catch the Glow parade

  27 NovNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  Estes Park's lit-up holiday parade rolls down Elkhorn Avenue on the evening after Thanksgiving, filling the gateway town with thousands of people and starting its Christmas season. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente))

Concurrido — Winter / Christmas break en Estados Unidos, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Ranger-led snowshoe walks

  15 Dic – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de esquí

  In snowy winters rangers lead two-hour snowshoe walks on weekends on both sides of the park into mid-March. Reservations open a week ahead and you bring or rent your own snowshoes in town. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Avalanche season (15 Oct – 15 Jun (normalmente))