Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Then & Now
Title | Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park Then & Now PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Pickering |
Publisher | Big Earth Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781565795327 |
Historic photographs paired with contemporary photographs taken from the exact same locations illuminate the evolution that has occurred in the Estes Park area, as well as in Rocky Mountain National Park, over more than a century. From the Stanley Hotel to Lake Estes, see whether the landmarks and landscape of Estes Park have been completely transformed or if they remain almost unchanged.
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, Then and Now
Title | Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, Then and Now PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Pickering |
Publisher | |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2019-06 |
Genre | Estes Park (Colo.) |
ISBN | 9781732312517 |
This book contains 134 pairs of images showing what the site looked like historically and what it looks like today. There is an historical narrative for each pair written by Dr. James Pickering.
Photographing Rocky Mountain National Park
Title | Photographing Rocky Mountain National Park PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Stensland |
Publisher | Landscape Photographers Gu |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2017-04-26 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780996962643 |
Are you planning a visit to Rocky Mountain National Park? Do you want to take stunning photos of this incredible landscape? Then you will want this book written by a professional photographer who has spent the last 15 years exploring and photographing Rocky.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Title | A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
Publisher | |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Estes Park (Colo.) |
ISBN |
Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Wild Light
Title | Wild Light PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Stensland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781970099119 |
Making Rocky Mountain National Park
Title | Making Rocky Mountain National Park PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry J. Frank |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0700619321 |
On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers craved. As Jerry Frank demonstrates, however, the park is much more than a lovely place. Rocky Mountain National Park was a keystone in broader efforts to create the National Park Service, and its history tells us a great deal about Colorado, tourism, and ecology in the American West. To Frank, the tensions between tourism and ecology have played out across a natural stage that is anything but passive. At nearly every turn the National Park Service found itself face-to-face with an environment that was difficult to anticipate—and impossible to control. Frank first takes readers back to the late nineteenth century, when Colorado boosters—already touting the Rocky Mountains’ restorative power for lung patients—set out to attract more tourists and generate revenue for the state. He then describes how an ecological perspective came to Rocky in fits and starts, offering a new way of imagining the park that did not sit comfortably with an entrenched management paradigm devoted to visitor recreation and comfort. Frank examines a wide range of popular activities including driving, hiking, skiing, fishing, and wildlife viewing to consider how they have impacted the park’s flora and fauna, often leaving widespread transformation in their wake. He subjects the decisions of park officials to close but evenhanded scrutiny, showing how in their zeal to return the park to what they understood as its natural state, they have tinkered with its features—sometimes with less than desirable results. Today’s Rocky Mountain National Park serves both competing visions, maintaining accessible roads and vistas for the convenience of tourists while guarding its backcountry to preserve ecological values. As the park prepares to celebrate its centennial, Frank’s book advances our understanding of its past while also providing an important touchstone for addressing its problems in the present and future.
Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park
Title | Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Stensland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780996962681 |
Special Sections -- Dogs -- Dog Trails -- Human Waste -- Personal Locator Beacons -- If You're Lost -- Bark Beetles -- Wilderness Camping -- Wildfires -- Lightning -- Shuttle Buses -- Trail Crews -- Understanding Search and Rescue (SAR).