Recent statistics show that visitors to the park spend about $306 million annually in gateway regions, supporting over 4,300 jobs and creating a total economic output of $464 million for the region.
The majority of visitors pass through one of the two major gateways to the park: either Estes Park from the east or Grand Lake from the west. With over 4.5 million visitors every year, Rocky Mountain is one of the most visited parks within the National Park System. Rocky Mountain National Park is also integrally connected to the surrounding landscape and gateway communities along both its east and west entrances.
The park consists of a varied terrain of extremes, from wooded forests to mountain tundra, and has some of the highest altitudes of national parks in the nation, with Longs Peak rising up to 14,259 feet.Īll this is within easy driving distance of the millions of residents of the Denver metropolitan area and Front Range communities. Rocky Mountain National Park covers 415 square miles atop the Continental Divide in the Front Range mountains of Colorado.
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