121. Estes Park Ski Shop
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2303
Address: 161 Virginia Drive
Description: This shop carries downhill skis, snowboards, snowshoes, sleds, and tubes.
122. Estes Park Mountain Shop
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-6548, (800) 504-6642
Address: 358 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: In addition to a complete fly shop and outdoor equipment and clothing, this shop offers rental equipment and instruction and guided trips in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.
123. Kirks Mountain Adventures
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 577-0790
Address: 230 East Elkhorn Avenue
Description: Kirks offers guided fly-fishing trips to Rocky Mountain National Park and the Big Thompson River. Their shop carries quality outdoor gear and rental equipment and offers guided hikes, backpacking trips, and llama pack trips as well.
124. Rocky Mountain Adventures
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (800) 858-6808 in Fort Collins
Description: This company offers year-round guided fly-fishing day trips on Big Thompson River a few miles from Estes Park, and overnights on the Poudre, Upper Colorado, and North Platte Rivers. The company is permitted by the forest service in those locations and licensed by the state of Colorado. The main office in Fort Collins is open year-round. The Estes Park office is open Memorial Day to Labor Day.
125. Scot’S Sporting Goods
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2877
Address: 2325 Spruce Avenue
Description: Stop by and ask owner Scot Richie—the local fishing authority and a third-generation Rocky Mountain fisherman—where to catch the big ones. He can also recommend and sell the best things to catch them with, including a selection of flies tied by local anglers who know what Estes Park fish like best. The shop also offers fly-fishing lessons and guided trips on the Big Thompson River and rents fishing equipment.
126. Estes Park Golf Course
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-8146
Address: 1080 South St. Vrain Road
Description: This 18-hole course is one of the oldest golf courses in the state, dating from 1912. In early fall, elk wander onto the course—watch out for their divots. Check their Web site or call for updated greens fees.
127. Lake Estes Executive Course
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-8176
Address: 690 Big Thompson Avenue
Description: This nine-hole course along the banks of the Big Thompson River provides a good game and a view to go with it. Check their Web site or call for updated greens fees.
128. Estes Park Ride-A-Kart
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-6495
Address: 2250 Big Thompson Avenue
Description: This mini amusement park has 36 holes of miniature golf, go-karts, bumper boats, a miniature train, and lots more.
129. Fun City
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-2828
Address: 455 Prospect Village Drive
Description: Kids will enjoy the miniature golf courses, bumper cars, video arcade, and the slide at Fun City, which is open every day in the summer, and on weekends only in the spring and fall.
130. Tiny Town Miniature Golf
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-6333
Address: 840 Moraine Avenue
Description: Tiny Town features a 19-hole miniature golf course in a lovely garden setting, with lots of challenging and entertaining features. The course has been in the same family for nearly 50 years, and the friendly owner is a great source of information about other fun things to do in the area.
131. Crosier Mountain Trail
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: A moderately difficult 8-mile round-trip that climbs to the top of Crosier Mountain (elevation 9,250 feet), this trail runs through lush meadows and aspen groves past ruins of old homesteads. You’ll have superb views from the summit. The trailhead is about 8 miles northeast of Estes Park on Devil’s Gulch Road, a mile past Glen Haven. Look for a large gravel lot on the south side of the road to the right.
132. Fish Creek Trail
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: This unpaved 6-mile (one-way) hike starts out easy but becomes moderately difficult when you reach the final 2 miles. It follows Fish Creek from its mouth at Lake Estes to its intersection with Highway 7 south of Mary’s Lake.
133. Lily Mountain Trail
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: An easy 1.5-mile hike, this trail begins near Estes Park and climbs to 8,800 feet, with fantastic summit views of Estes Park, Longs Peak to the south, and the Continental Divide to the west. The trailhead is 6 miles south of Estes Park on Highway 7. Just before the 6-mile marker look for a small turnoff on the right, where there’s a parking area and trailhead sign.
134. Lion Gulch
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: Another pleasant trail of moderate difficulty, Lion Gulch leads to an area of old homesteads and is about 3 miles one way. The trailhead is at mile marker 8 from Estes Park on US 36.
135. Aspen Lodge At Estes Park
City: Estes Park, CO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (970) 586-8133, (800) 332-6867
Address: 6120 Highway 7
Description: A 3,000-acre ranch resort, Aspen Lodge offers rides into both Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest. It’s south of Estes Park on Highway 7. There are meadow rides, cowboy supper rides, and half-day rides at Elk Park Ranch.