The Aerial Tram over Estes Park is the perfect place to relax and take in the mountains as you ascend into the realm of the fourteeners (a mountain man term for a 14,000-foot-high peak). It’s a sensibility that combines stage fright, jitteriness and pure refreshment.
This feeling becomes overpowering as you trolley up to the high terminal of Prospect Mountain, at 8,700 feet. Within five minutes, you’ve gone 1,100 feet straight up in the cable car.
On the Tram you can get in thought, gazing in numbing awe at massive ice-capped summits. There’s always time to summit a hill - it, unlike time, waits for everybody. So, when it’s too wintry for a challenging but still pleasant ascent, instead try the Aerial Tram. It’s a great way to just relax and see what’s in store.
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Things to know:
Region: Estes Park
Average temperature: Low 18 degrees, high 79 degrees F.
Mountain range: The Rocky Mountains
Average population: 6,268
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