Sports & Outdoors
IconicRocky Mountain National Park
Under $25Drive Trail Ridge Road across the alpine tundra to 12,183 feet, or hike to the lakes along the Continental Divide.
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Sightseeing
Cache la Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
A roughly 101-mile scenic byway linking Fort Collins with Walden through a canyon river corridor and over a high mountain pass.
Fort Collins, CO
About Cache la Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
This byway follows a route from Fort Collins to Walden in North Park, a bowl-shaped valley east of the Continental Divide. The drive climbs through the Cache la Poudre River canyon, a corridor long used by Native Americans and later by explorers. Today recreation draws most visitors, especially whitewater paddlers and anglers on the river, which carries a federal wild and scenic designation. The highway crosses Cameron Pass at 10,276 feet and passes a large state forest of glaciated peaks and dense evergreens. North Park still supports deer, elk, moose, antelope and other wildlife, and migrating waterfowl gather at a nearby wildlife refuge.
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