Paradise Park Natural Area, Rocky Mountain National Park

#47 among attractions in Rocky Mountain National Park

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Paradise Park Natural Area is a natural area in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, several miles east of Grand Lake. It protects the upper Paradise Creek basin, encompassing several alpine lakes, alpine meadows, and virgin spruce-fir forest. Paradise Creek contains pure strains of Colorado River cutthroat trout. The area is also adjacent to the Hell Canyon Natural Area in the Indian Peaks wilderness. ()

Coordinates: 40°11'53"N, 105°43'9"W

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Paradise Park Natural Area – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Longs Peak, Kauffman House, Powell Peak, Mount Alice.

6.8 miNE
Snow-capped national park mountain peak
Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
173 min walk • Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,259-foot fourteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 9.6 miles southwest by south of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, United States.
6.3 miNW
History museum, Museum
Kauffman House, Grand Lake
162 min walk • The Kauffman House is a rustic log house in Grand Lake, Colorado that functioned as a hotel from its construction in 1892 to 1973. It was built by Ezra Kauffman, a local prospector, trapper and builder of log structures who operated it as a hotel until his death in 1920 at age 71.
5.5 miNE
Mountain
Powell Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
140 min walk • Powell Peak is a summit in Grand County, Colorado, in the United States. With an elevation of 13,176 feet, Powell Peak is the 512th highest summit in the state of Colorado. The peak was named for John Wesley Powell.
4.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Alice, Rocky Mountain National Park
105 min walk • Mount Alice is a high mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,315-foot thirteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 12.0 miles southwest by south of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado, United States...
5.5 miNW
Trail, Tower
Shadow Mountain Lookout, Rocky Mountain National Park
141 min walk • The Shadow Mountain Lookout, also known as the Shadow Mountain Patrol Cabin, was built in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1932, to the design of the National Park Service San Francisco Landscape Architecture Division. It was regarded as one of the best National Park Service Rustic buildings in the national park system.
5.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Taylor Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park
144 min walk • Taylor Peak, elevation 13,158 ft, is a summit in the Front Range of north central Colorado. The peak is in Rocky Mountain National Park at the head of Loch Vale and just north of Taylor Glacier.
5.1 miNW
Hiking trail, Outdoor activities, Park
East Inlet Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park
130 min walk • The East Inlet Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, was established in 1913 to provide access from Grand Lake to a series of lakes 6 miles to the east of Grand Lake.
6.7 miNE
Climbing
Casual Route, Rocky Mountain National Park
172 min walk • The Casual Route is the easiest technical climbing route up the Diamond of Longs Peak.
6.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
The Dove, Rocky Mountain National Park
174 min walk • The Dove is a small cirque glacier or perennial snowfield located in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado. The Dove is on the north slope of Longs Peak and near The Keyhole, which is along a popular climbing route to the summit.
3.9 miSE
Natural attraction, Natural feature
Saint Vrain Glaciers, Indian Peaks Wilderness
101 min walk • The Saint Vrain Glaciers are small alpine glaciers located in Roosevelt National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. The glaciers are just south of Rocky Mountain National Park and east of the Continental Divide in northeast facing cirques.
2.8 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Moomaw Glacier, Rocky Mountain National Park
72 min walk • Moomaw Glacier is an alpine glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado. Moomaw Glacier is almost 1 mi northeast of Isolation Peak and the old terminal moraine of the glacier impounds Frigid Lake.