City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 333 Wonderview Avenue
92. Wild Rose Food And Spirit Co.
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2806
Address: 157 West Elkhorn Avenue
Description: With a nice variety of items from delicious sandwiches to steaks and seafood, this is a great place for lunch or dinner. They have a good selection of wines as well. A children’s menu is available, and don’t leave without sampling the Wild Rose peach cobbler. Lunch is served 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dinner begins at 5 p.m. Online reservations are available.
93. Estes Park Senior Center
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2996
Address: 220 Fourth Street
Description: The center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Senior Center serves meals five days a week. About 25 meals a day are transported to seniors’ homes. There’s a blood-pressure clinic once a month. Exercise classes happen three times a week. The senior center is also a good place to connect with town activities, including book groups, lectures, art classes, and pinochle and bridge clubs. It hosts card games twice a week and a weekly oil-painting class.
94. Canyonlands Indian Arts
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 577-0479
Address: 146 West Elkhorn Avenue
Description: This shop features top-quality Indian and Southwest jewelry, authentic pottery, kachinas, carvings, and Navajo rugs.
95. Colorado Candelabra
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-0091
Address: 157 W. Elkhorn Ave.
Description: The smell is enough to bring you in the front door of this little shop, which sells just about every type of candle imaginable.
96. Craftsmen In Leather
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2691
Address: 135 West Elkhorn Avenue
Description: “Come in and smell the leather,” invites this store. You can take a self-guided tour of the shop, try on some of the hats in the huge inventory—which includes everything from fur felt and suede to wool and straw—and learn how to care for leather goods. The store also sells belts and buckles, handbags and luggage, wallets, moccasins, and jewelry.
97. Glass Blowers
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-5963
Address: 126 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: Those who would like a blown-glass hummingbird can find one of the best selections in the area at this shop. Most of the blown glass is made at the shop’s other studio in Manitou Springs, Colorado. You’ll find hummingbirds in every color of the rainbow here, from red and green ruby throats to copper rufous hummers. All types of other miniature figures are represented in glass as well.
98. High Country Amish Quilts
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 577-1557
Address: 870 Moraine Avenue
Description: In addition to offering Colorado’s largest selection of Amish and Mennonite quilts and wall hangings, High Country now includes a fabric shop with quilt patterns, fabric, and embellishments. Not only do the quilts make distinctive gifts, they also are spectacular pieces of handcrafted art.
99. The Hiking Hut
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-0708
Address: 110 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: This shop offers a nice selection of backpacks, jackets, sunglasses, and other accessories for hiking and camping in the mountains. They also rent snowshoes in the winter.
100. Macdonald Book Shop
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-3450
Address: 152 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: Established in 1928, this large bookstore in an old log cabin was originally the home of turn-of-the-20th-century residents. The owners have had the bookstore for four generations. The New York Times is available, along with a wide selection of hardcovers, paperbacks, children’s books, books on cassette, magazines, and calendars. Be sure to read the history plaque out front explaining how the first bookstore on the site was opened in the owners’ living room. Colorful Scottish plaid carpet and exposed log beams set the interior mood.
101. Moses Street Photography
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-7221
Address: 157 West Elkhorn
Description: Okay, it’s not exactly shopping, but we thought you might want to know about this service. Moses Street specializes in portraits, but we’re not talking about a stool in front of a fake bookcase. In addition to glamour portraits and family reunions captured on film, Moses will actually capture your image at the top of a mountain or canoeing across a crystal lake, if that’s where you want to go. “We travel anywhere in the world to do any type of people photography,” Moses promises.
102. The Old Church Shops
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 157 West Elkhorn Avenue
Description: There are several distinctive shops and dining available at The Old Church Shops. The structure used to be the Community Church of the Rockies, and the southeast portion of the current building goes all the way back to 1909. Each shop in the complex offers unique merchandise, not your usual chain-style stores.
103. Outdoor World
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2114
Address: 156 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: Outdoor World is Estes Park’s largest outfitter. Shop here for a great selection of high-quality boots, backpacks, jackets, water bottles, and everything you need for the outdoors.
104. Park Theatre
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-8904
Description: Several small shops are nestled around the historic Park Theatre, which was built in 1913. The theater’s impressive white tower—Estes Park’s tallest structure—was added to the building by a former owner as a monument to a woman who left him at the altar. The Park Theatre’s cafe and snack shops—open from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily—are a good place to stop in summer.
105. Rocky Mountain Knife Company
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-8419
Address: 125 Moraine Avenue
Description: This tiny shop bills itself as “the Biggest Little Knife Store West of the Mississippi.” It’s not just knives, though. The walls and shelves are covered with everything from kitchen cutlery to crossbows, swords and battle axes, tomahawks, blow guns and sling shots, water balloons, and martial arts supplies. They sharpen knives, too.