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Estes Park (/ ˈɛstɪs /) is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. [1] The town population was 5,904 at the 2020 United States Census. [4] Estes Park is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.
May 26, 1977 (expanded June 20, 1985, and April 16, 1998) Official logo. The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley, co-founder of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, and opened on July 4 ...
1.690 mi [1] (2.720 km) Existed. 1964 [2] –present. U.S. Highway 34 Business serves Estes Park, Colorado. Both of its termini are at US 34. The business route splits from the main route east of the Rocky Mountain National Park Fall River Entrance Station, [3] in the western city limits of Estes Park and enters town on West Elkhorn Avenue.
Graves Camp Rural Historic District. December 14, 2016. (#16000155) Five miles west of I-25 just south of the Colorado-Wyoming state line, in far northeastern Larimer County. 40°59′11″N 105°00′31″W / 40.986357°N 105.008686°W / 40.986357; -105.008686 (Graves Camp Rural Historic District) Wellington.
U.S. Route 34 (US 34) is an east–west United States highway that runs for 1,122 miles (1,806 km) from north-central Colorado to the western suburbs of Chicago.Through Rocky Mountain National Park it is known as the Trail Ridge Road where it reaches an elevation of 12,183 feet (3,713 m), making it one of the highest paved through highways in the United States.
Lawn Lake Dam was an earthen dam in Rocky Mountain National Park, United States that failed on July 15, 1982, at about 6 a.m., in an event known as the flood of 1982. The sudden release of 30 million cubic feet (850,000 m 3) of water resulted in a flash flood that killed three people camping in the park and caused $31 million in damage to the ...
U.S. Route 36 (US 36) is a United States highway that travels from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east–west route mostly in the northern portion of the Great Plains. At its west end, the road connects several small mountain towns such as Estes Park and Lyons to the larger ...
It wiped out Canyon Street, then known as Water Street, and flooded most of the downtown area. In 1965 another flood hit Colorado. [citation needed] The Big Thompson River begins around Estes Park in northern Colorado and flows east through the state into Big Thompson Canyon. [13] On July 31, 1976, the Big Thompson Flood of 1976 struck .