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Estes Park's Stanley Hotel was the inspiration for Stephen King's novel The Shining, but it has long faced one key problem: The hedge maze that audiences…
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The yearlong celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park’s centennial is finally drawing to a close with two days of events, culminating an official…
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If you visit Estes Park, you’re part of the problem.The town is grappling with increasing tourist traffic and parking problems, which have only gotten…
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Using a report by the Urban Land Institute as a guide, Loveland officials continue to restore areas hard hit by 2013's historic flooding. For every lesson…
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Taking advantage of warm autumn weather and newly rebuilt roads, more than 3.4 million people spent time at Rocky Mountain National Park in 2014. That’s…
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Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson were the first climbers to use only their hands and feet to ascend the nearly 3,000-foot Dawn Wall in a single trip. Ropes were used only to break a fall.
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Two rock climbers are close to finishing a hugely ambitious project on El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley — free-climbing the Dawn Wall. They talked to NPR's Melissa Block from the rock face.
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Chapel of the Interlude is a fitting name for a church in the middle of a narrow, winding canyon. In 1969, benefactors built the intimate wood-paneled…
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In the climbing world, 1959 is a year marked in controversy. Italian Cesare Maestri and Austrian Toni Egger scaled a seemingly impossible route up the…
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Four popular trails at Rocky Mountain National Park – the Lawn Lake and Ypsilon Lake, Alluvial Fan, Twin Sisters and Aspen Brook trails – were so damaged…