Rocky Mountain National Park’s Summer Season Began Normally Friday. Will It Stay that Way?

Rocky Mountain National Park’s summer season began normally Friday. Will it stay that way?

There is nothing normal about the natural beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park, but visitors were pleased to find the park operating normally on Friday despite nationwide concerns over national park staffing and Washington, D.C. budget issues. The onset of the Memorial Day weekend marked the start of the park’s peak season, and with it the seasonal requirement for timed-entry reservations. That season lasts from May 23 to Oct. 13, and visitors…

Colorado nonprofits rally to support national parks amid ‘unprecedented times’

Over the past eight years heading up the Rocky Mountain Conservancy, a nonprofit that exists to support Rocky Mountain National Park and nearby public lands, Estee Rivera Murdock has seen one challenge after another threaten the nation’s fifth-busiest national park. During her tenure as the group’s executive director, there have been two government shutdowns, including one of 35 days in 2019 that was the longest in U.S. history. There was a glob…