Sunday, 7th September - Denver to Cheyenne (220 miles)

We checked out of the Magnolia hotel in Denver and collected our hire car, a Kia Telluride:

A mighty 7 seater, all wheel drive, 3.8 litre V6.

We headed north west to Estes Park, the gateway to the Rocky Mountain National Park (the park that should have commenced our Grand Circle Tour last year but which got scrubbed at the eleventh hour in favour of a couple of nights in Colorado Springs due to a heavy snowfall). The Rocky Mountain National Park is crossed by the Trail Ridge Road which is is the highest (elevation of over 12,000 feet at its highest point) and some say the loveliest mountain road in the USA:


We drove approximately 50 miles along the Trail Ridge Road before turning round just after its highest point and returning to Estes Park.

From there we drove back east through the Roosevelt National Forest, a beautiful deep cut gorge following the Big Thompson River.

Onwards then to Interstate 25 and north to our overnight accommodation, across the state borderline into Wyoming, at Cheyenne.

Comments

  1. Miss GillianSeptember 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM

    Watch out for the bears! Nice car, I wonder if it does any better than 16 mpg?

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  2. MawsSeptember 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM

    Rocky mountains really are beautiful 😍 we went by train and saw so much wildlife. Watch out for eagles soaring the thermals

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