Rocky Mountain Natl Park-Trail Ridge Road
We are planning a trip to Colorado in a few weeks, and would like to take a day trip from our base camp through the park on the Trail Ridge Road. Are there any steep drop-offs on this road? My Briti...
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Thom did an excellent job. We lived in Estes for 8 years and loved driving Trail Ridge. Keep in mind, we were experienced mountain road drivers. Yes, there are no guard rail, little shoulder dropoffs where your first bounce after going over is several hundred feet down.
Go early in the morning - I mean early. It is a traffic jam later. And people stop in the middle of the road to get out and take pictures; some even leave their car. Kinda jams things up.
I could write a book of stories about it.
And you have no control over the other driver.
We are heading to CO again from Tucson area. And, once again, we are not going back to Estes Park - it is a zoo with people in the summer.
Go early in the morning - I mean early. It is a traffic jam later. And people stop in the middle of the road to get out and take pictures; some even leave their car. Kinda jams things up.
I could write a book of stories about it.
And you have no control over the other driver.
We are heading to CO again from Tucson area. And, once again, we are not going back to Estes Park - it is a zoo with people in the summer.
