Estes Park

 Welcome to another addition of our Colorado blog series. We are very excited to be bringing you to the beautiful Estes Park. 

 

  With elevations over 7,000 feet, this place has a lot of beauty to offer high up on those mountains. Entering into Estes Park, we stopped to take a picture(ABOVE) and fed the chipmunks as well as spotted a unique blue bird that we could not identify. We did have a little bit of a time frame to be in as we found it important to take a tour of the Stanley Hotel. For those of us that do not know the background of this hotel, it is the place that inspired Stephen King to write his novel The Shining back in the 1970s. Even if you are not a horror fan like we are, the hotel still has a lot of fun history to know about and is worth seeing at least once. Skeptic or enthusiast, there are definitely some strange vibes going on in this place as far as the paranormal goes and...we may have actually caught something on our camera while we were there. 

  As we do not wish to give the Stanley Hotel all of the credit, let us move on to the shopping strip that we explored after our tour. Not only did the strip have nice shops to go in, the outdoor scenery was beautiful as well. We had a nice day exploring a few different souvenir shops, clothing boutiques, taffy making, and a responsible lunch of ice cream as we strolled the strip and dipped our toes into the small river running straight through the town. When it came time for us to carry on to another adventure and leave out of Estes Park, our exit was accompanied by a family herd of elk disrupting traffic...which we did not mind at all. 

Final Thoughts: We gave this blog post a good try at a review and we probably still did not include every single thing we wanted to while being in Estes Park. Meaning, the beauty is stunning and is a must see for anyone looking to explore Colorado. We may even be brave enough to say that this is 1 of our favorite spots in Colorado.