E Estes Park region became famous for its 

 scenery during the height of the Rocky 

 Mountain gold-fever half a century ago. While 

 Colorado was still a Territory, its scenes were 

 visited by Helen Hunt, Anna Dickinson, and 

 Isabella Bird, all of whom sang the praises of 

 this great hanging wild garden. 



The park is a natural one, a mingling of 

 meadows, headlands, groves, winding streams 

 deeply set in high mountains whose forested 

 steeps and snowy, broken tops stand high and 

 bold above its romantic loveliness. It is a mar- 

 velous grouping of gentleness and grandeur; an 

 eloquent, wordless hymn, that is sung in silent, 

 poetic pictures; a sublime garden miles in extent 

 and all arranged with infinite care. 



Grace Greenwood once declared that the sky- 

 line of this region, when seen from out in the 

 Great Plains, loomed up like the Alps from the 

 plains of Lombardy. 



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