Visiting Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the nation’s most spectacular mountain parks with 60 peaks over 12,000 feet, small permanent glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, wildlife and cultural treasures. To experience the park, many visitors take the 10-mile scenic alpine drive along Bear Lake Road to Bear Lake, creating long traffic lines and a severe shortage of parking spaces.

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Rocky Mountain National Park

This dramatic landscape of towering mountains and alpine lakes encompasses more than 265,000 acres - 95% of which are designated wilderness. With this intentional focus on protecting this unique landscape,…

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Know Before You Go

• Timed entry reservations will be required to enter the park between May 24 and October 20, 2024

• Reservations can be made at recreation.gov

• Reservations will become available on May 1 at 8am MT for reservations to enter the park from May 24 through June 30.

• After that, reservations for the next month become available on the first day of the previous month at 8am MT

• Around 40% of reservations are held back for purchase the day before, at 7pm MT

• There are two types of reservations.

• Both types of reservation give visitors a two-hour window in which they can enter the park

• Reservation for Bear Lake Corridor, required May 24 - Oct. 20: Full access to the park including the Bear Lake Road corridor. This reservation period will be active from 5am to 6pm. Reservations are not required outside of these times.

• Reservation for areas excluding the Bear Lake Road corridor: required May 24 - Oct. 15: Access to the park, excluding the Bear Lake Road corridor. The reservation period is active from 9am to 2pm. Reservations are not required outside of these times.