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Rocky Mountain National Park contains some of the most stunning natural scenery of the Colorado Front Range. Soaring mountain peaks, glaciers and snowfields, rivers, lakes and waterfalls, and open parklands characterize this rugged country and are easily accessible from the park roads. The highest is Longs Peak, which soars to 14,255-ft and is one of the most prominent landmarks in Colorado; streets in downtown Denver 70 miles away are oriented toward its summit. Longs Peak is the northernmost "fourteener". The 1920 opening of Rocky Mountain national park’s Fall River Road linked the east and west side of the park. The road, predecessor to Trail Ridge Road, enabled motorists to enjoy the “Circle Tour,” a 240-mile-long scenic drive linking Denver, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, Berthoud Pass, and Idaho Springs. Lee and Jane Whiteley gave the following talk on the Circle Tour. They live in Centennial, Colorado, are the authors of five books on the transportation history of the West, are writers for American Road Magazine and are associate producers of the PBS presentation, Paving the Way, the National Park-to-Park Highway.
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