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Bear lake is a best destination in Rocky mountains. It is a small lake surrounded by woods and beautiful mountains.

Unfortunately the lake was covered with snow that day. It was still early may so that was expected. It is good to go there in late may or later if you are planning a trip.

Since the bear lake was frozen, we visited a nearby lake named Sprague lake. It was full with water and really beautiful. We took the foot trail which runs around the lake and collected many nice photographs.

 

We still had few hours left. so we drove on the open parts of the trail ridge road and visited sheep lakes but they lacked water. However we were able to see some mountain elks there.

We spent the night in Four seasons Inn, Estes park. The hotel had only few rooms but the room was clean and comfy.

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Our main target of Colorado trip was Rocky mountains national park. We searched the park's web site and decided to drive on some scenic byways like Trailridge road and Old fall river road in the park.

While driving from Denver to Rockies, we chose a scenic byway named peak to peak byway.  It was really a nice byway and we could experience lots of scenery  of snow covered blue mountains on the way.

 This is the map of our route from Denver to Rockies.



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We arrived in Estes park around noon and got to know that both Trailridge and Oldfall river byways are closed until Memorial day (27th May). This is a fact to remember if you are visiting Rockies before memorial day.

So we had lunch from Estes park and then visited Bear lake, which is another beautiful location in Rocky mountains park.
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