Estes Park in Colorado is home to a bounty of scenic and natural wonders. It’s the perfect place to start your adventures, with more than 300 stores that showcase everything from hand-crafted local items to outdoor gear to great drinks and food. It’s now a popular destination for foodies, artists, and craft beer enthusiasts too. Along with that, it comes with breathtaking panoramas that draw visitors from all over the globe and take Estes Park lodging for families. Here are some options to enjoy the time you have in this picturesque Colorado town:
Shopping
Estes Park’s bustling downtown area is packed with boutiques, shops, and galleries that have everything for the entire family. In Patterson Glassworks, you shop for beautiful hand-crafted bowls, pitchers, and other ornaments, just to name some of the items available. Thirty Below Leather specializes in quality leather products such as backpacks, purses, gloves, wallets, and many more. In order to keep it, fresh Everything in the store costs less than $30. (Get it? …Thirty Below.) Earthwood Artisans showcases the work of 240 diverse artists who create American-made ceramics, jewelry, photographs, prints art glass, paintings wind chimes, metal art as well as kaleidoscopes and woodworking, and much more.
Dining
Estes Park lies higher than 7500 feet higher than sea levels and all the outdoor fun (and shopping) will make for thirsty and hungry guests. For dinner and lunch, You can pick the most diverse cuisines you’d like. Do you want to eat Mexican? The Peppers Mexican Grill is a fast-casual restaurant that is famous for its burritos. Ed’s Cantina is an established local popular hangout for climbers and a favorite. Esmeraldas Tamale House isn’t fancy however, visitors are raving about their famous tamales along with other traditional Mexican food items.
For Italian Mama Rose’s as well as Mama Rose’s and the Dunraven Inn are both good dining options for people who love delicious steak, pasta, and seafood. Some argue that it’s difficult to find authentic New York Pizza west of the Mississippi, Antonio’s Real New York Pizza is owned by real New Yorkers.
Drinking
There’s nothing like a great local beer to quench the thirst and tie visitors to the area. Colorado is home to a flourishing craft beer scene which is why Estes Park is a major element of this. The first destination on the tour is Estes Park Brewery, which is the most renowned brewery in town. They make a dozen different beers and serve them directly off the faucet. Take a sip of their Stinger Wild Honey Wheat–it’s made with Colorado clover honey. Their beer chili is divine too.
To Do
The Estes Park Hotels Colorado has been an Estes Park landmark for over 100 years. Darren Edwards. The outdoors dominates the activities here such as walking through Rocky Mountain National Park to climbing rocks at Lumpy Ridge. If you’d like to experience a bit of history without much effort then head over to Knoll Willows Open Space Trail. Knoll Willows Open Space Trail. It’s located right downtown and the mile-long trail is filled with historic remains of settlements from the past and an old cabin. The working ranch was established in the late 1870s and is a showcase of the life of early homesteaders and settlers of the Colorado Territory. Its Estes Park Museum has more than 30,000 objects that tell the story of the town’s development. It is also the home of Stories Under the Stars, an area in which visitors can hear the stories recorded by Estes Park pioneers.
