Rocky Mountain National Park — usatoday.com

Driving across the vast plains of Kansas and Eastern Colorado, their sudden apparition looms like a mile-high mirage. For a flatlander, the first view of the Rocky Mountains is astonishing, but it's nothing compared to a complete immersion in the wonders of a Rocky Mountain landscape, the crown jewel of which is Rocky Mountain National Park. Alpine lakes, snowcapped peaks, meadows filled with wildflowers, crystalline mountain streams, majestic elk and bighorn sheep, midsummer days fresh enough to hike through the woods without breaking a sweat – it's enough to make one pack up and move west.

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