Colorado

This is Lily Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park just south of the town of Estes Park. We walked around there after heading south along highway 7.

My wife and I were in C0olorado for a few days in October and went up into the Rockies one of those days for some sightseeing and a drive. Following Highway 7 south we visited St. Catherine's Chapel on the Rock, a Roman Catholic chapel, open to visitors. We had failed to get into Rocky Mountain National Park since they now have a system of timed entries, and a drive south was the only alternative we could think of.

Lily Lake is in Rocky Mountain National Park south of the town of Estes Park, Long's Peak, the highest peak in the park at over 14,000 feet, is west of the lake. Long's Peak is the peak with the notch on the left side. Mount Meeker lies to its south.

Long's Peak is in the northern Colorado Rockies in Rocky Mountain National Park. At 14,256 feet, (4346 m) it is the highest peak in the park and is recognizable by the notch on its south side. Many years ago (1979) I climbed the peak with a friend (the second PIP is from that climb), the only Colorado fourteener I've climbed.