Many Parks Curve
The "parks" referred to at this scenic pulloff are another name for the mountain-enclosed meadows you see here.
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Many Parks Curve Details
The "parks" referred to at this scenic pulloff are another name for the mountain-enclosed meadows you see here. The meadows are separated by glacial moraines, essentially big piles of rocks deposited here by moving ice up to about 12,000 years ago. Glaciers repeatedly were born on the mountain headwalls west of here, slowly advancing to or retreating from the valley floor as the climate cooled and warmed.
Difficulty
Low
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Region
Trail Ridge Road
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Many Parks Curve
The "parks" referred to at this scenic pulloff are another name for the mountain-enclosed meadows you see here.
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Trail Ridge Road
Rocky Mountain's famous "highway to the sky."
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Beaver Ponds
A half-century of industrious work by beavers and natural succession have helped transform a pond.
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Elk Exclosures
A lack of natural predators has led the elk to overgraze the lower meadows and forests.
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West Horseshoe Park/Horseshoe Inn
Glaciers carved this valley and deposited the sands that became the meadows of West Horseshoe Park.
