Rocky Mountain National Park caters to hiking enthusiasts, but you don’t have to be ready to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to enjoy everything Rocky Mountain offers.
Bear Lake Trail is a beautiful hike around Bear Lake, and it’s easy for excited toddlers and curious older kids to make the trek. It’s a virtually flat, easy, one-mile walk accessible for a wheelchair or a stroller.
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With virtually no elevation gain, this one-mile, pine-lined path near a popular backcountry campground is wheelchair accessible and provides stunning views of Hallet Peak and Flattop Mountain, the gorgeous peaks that form the Continental Divide.
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This less-than-a-mile delight will thrill the entire family with its flat terrain to the Wild Basin Area falls with only a 15-feet elevation gain.
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Here’s a lengthier option, and it should take three hours round trip through aspens and meadows. You’ll access 540 feet in elevation gain and end up on a beautiful lake with water lilies growing on it.
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The East Inlet Trail gives you almost instantaneous access to a waterfall. It’s an easy hike of 0.3 miles from the East Inlet trailhead, just outside the park in Grand Lake.
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On this particular trail, you can stare in wonder at Longs Peak, Pagoda Mountain and the Keyboard of the Winds.