Rocky mountain national park and ??

We visited Rocky Mountain National park and were very, very disappointed. The bark beetle has ravaged this area of Colorado and it literally looks like a bomb went off. The lodge pole pines are dying at tremendous rates. We stayed at one campground in RNMP and another next to Steamboat lake. All the trees in both campgrounds had been cut down because they were dead from the beetle. The dead trees were basically shoved to the side and the area looked like a barren waste land. I agree with RexLion - Telluride/Ouray/Silverton - MUCH better area than RNMP. Sunshine campground outside Telluride and Amphitheater campground in Ouray are 2 of our favorites.