
By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun
Rocky Mountain National Park appears to have found the formula for handling 4 million-plus people a year in this idyllic retreat.
You might need to give the town another year of grace to handle their end.
Downtown Estes Park is often at a traffic standstill in summer as park-seeking RVs rev their engines at caramel corn-seeking pedestrians. Now downtown is deep into the crucial year of a project that will create a one-way loop around town and out toward the park. Most town leaders and business owners welcome the change, but before it’s done, there’s still a lot of disruption ahead.
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