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Article: Rocky Mountain high for hikers: Colorado park offers miles and miles of trails.(Travel)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 2, 1996
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ESTES PARK, Colo. - Growing up each summer in Estes Park, in the mountains of northeast Colorado, it seemed to me and my cousin, John, that exploring Rocky Mountain National Park's high country was the only way to spend a vacation.
In those days we had no television, mountain lakes were too cold for swimming and riding stables were too expensive - and besides, only tourists went there. Estes Park's few tennis courts were off limits to town kids and even bicycle riding on the bumpy dirt road that ran past our cabin was a chore.
Estes Park has undergone a metamorphosis since the 1960s; the old-timers would never recognize the brick-paved shopping malls ...