Rocky Mountain National Park Research Paper

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Rocky Mountain National Park I took a trip to Colorado In July of 2015 it was the best week of my life. The best part of that week was the day that I got to spend in rocky mountain national park. It was a great experience with beautiful scenery and wildlife everywhere you looked. This trip changed everything I thought about where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do when I am finished with my schooling. I can remember everything from that day and still think of it often. The first area we went to after entering the park was a small clearing about a mile from the entrance. It was situated at the base of two mountains. When we arrived a small stream that was flowing down from the mountains, and hiking trails along with an information center. We ventured out on one of the shorter trails, it was beautiful along the trail as it snaked in and out of the trees on the way to the top of a mountain. Small animals such as mice and chipmunks were everywhere. The trail was about a mile long but the incline was steep and going up was difficult and slow. After returning from the first hiking trail of the day we loaded back up in the car to head to another area of the park. The drive was extremely nerve racking my mother in law …show more content…

It was another site set up by the park just a few hundred feet below the vegetation line. In this area you could clearly see where the line of vegetation stopped, and turned into a rocky landscape. From this spot we went on our second hiking trail across a rocky and snow covered mountain top. It was incredibly strange to be walking in about six inches of snow in the middle of July. The temperature had dropped dramatically from when we were at the base of the mountains it was about a twenty degree difference in only twenty minutes of driving. After getting back to the car we were back on the road and we were heading to the highest point in the

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