While efforts to make it a national park have fallen short, this sublime Idaho mountain range is well worth a visit.

For spectacular views, venture up to the Alpine Visitor Center. If you're visiting in the warmer months, Trail Ridge Road is your lifeline through Rocky Mountain National Park. The main route ...

Where else can you start your hike in the summer sun and end it atop a mountain in the snow? One place is Rocky Mountain ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In Rocky Mountain National Park, 415 square miles of mountain terrain are protected—but not from effects of climate ...

As many of us who live in Grand County remember, Rocky Mountain National Park commemorated its 100th anniversary in 2015. As ...

With this intentional focus on protecting this unique landscape, there are few developed infrastructure areas in the park, which leads to traffic problems ... $6.65 billion over five years – to fix ...

Back before the internet, hikers only had one tool to explore Rocky Mountain National Park. They simply called it the Dannen book. Kent Dannen, seen in this undated photo, wrote the guidebook ...

That unfortunately included one fatality. Rocky Mountain National Park offers a chance to learn how to avoid situations like that at its Avalanche Beacon Training Park. “There are eight buried ...

Rocky Mountain National Park encompasses more than 250,000 acres ... consider a scenic drive or a picnic to make the most of the outstanding views. Winter activities like cross-country skiing ...

Rocky Mountain National Park is home to herds of elk and bighorn sheep, but it also has a population of mountain lions and black bears. Although attacks are very rare, the National Park Service ...

Average annual temperature increase over the last century in the high-elevation park from climate change Rocky Mountain National Park covers 415 square miles atop the Continental Divide in the Front ...