Ouzel Falls - Rocky Mountain National Park - Calypso Cascades, Wild Basin Trails!!
An excellent trip into the Rocky Mountains on the Basin Trails. The trailhead lies about an hour and a half from Denver, Colorado up in the Rocky Mountains - where cell phone reception fails to exist.
The Basin trails offer a fabulous venture into the wild Rockies, with high mountain trails, raging rivers and plenty of waterfalls and rapids to quench a hiker's thirst for nature's scenery.
After hitting the trail, we take some time at Copeland Falls, the least impressive of the three we'd see on this hike, but still a relaxing and natural delight.
Further up the trail we hang out at the Calypso Cascades, a layered waterfall that captures your eye over and over, before heading up higher into the mountains to Ouzel Falls - a raging faucet that sprays the area with mist, and tempts you to climb closer and closer.
A fantastic afternoon was spent in Rocky Mountain National park.
The trail was only moderate in difficulty, but with the daylight growing short, I took it a little faster than I would have ordinarily - although you wouldn't know that from the 'chilling out' I do in the video. I thought I would have been one of the last hikers of the evening, but sure enough quite a few were heading up after me. No chance they got back down by dark.
Good for them.
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Ouzel Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park
On a warm, March day, Dianna and I hiked on some snowy and icy trails along Ouzel Creek to Copeland Falls, Calypso Falls and Ouzel Falls. Aong the way, a blue jay kept us company. On the drive up, we saw Big Horn Sheep and on the way back, many herd of elk.
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Another look at Ouzel Falls in the Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.....
Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) - Wild Basin, Calypso Cascades, and Ouzel Falls - Day 5 of 5.
Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) - Wild Basin, Copeland Falls, Calypso Cascades, and Ouzel Falls - Day 5 of 5. This is our last day in RMNP and second to last stop before at Lily Lake. This is probably my second favorite hike in RMNP because of all the water features including St. Vrain Creek, Copeland Falls, Calypso Cascades, and Ouzel Falls. This was recorded on June 1st 2018.
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Here is a great trail description provided by this site.
The hike to Ouzel Falls begins from the fairly remote Wild Basin Trail head in the southeastern corner of Rocky Mountain National Park, located near the small communities of Meeker Park and Allenspark. To reach the trail head from Estes Park, drive 12.6 miles south on Colorado Highway 7 to the Wild Basin Road junction and turn right. After driving 0.4 miles make another right turn into the park. The Wild Basin Trail head is located roughly 2.2 miles from the park turn-off on a narrow, two-wheel drive gravel road.
This hike offers several attractions along the way, including Copeland Falls and Calypso Cascades. Lower Copeland Falls, your first destination along this route, arrives at just over three-tenths of a mile from the trail head. The upper falls are located roughly one-tenth of a mile further upstream along the North St. Vrain Creek. There's a side trail that visits both the lower and upper falls. This trail parallels the main trail, and once you've visited Upper Copeland Falls, will allow you to return back to the main trail without having to backtrack.
Beyond the falls the trail crosses over Sandbeach Creek. At just over 1.3 miles from the trailhead you'll reach a spur trail that provides access to a series of five backcountry campgrounds that offer a total of seven individual campsites. To continue on towards Calypso Cascades, hikers should stay to the left at this junction.
At roughly 1.6 miles hikers will pass an unnamed waterfall, which shouldn't be confused with Calypso Cascades, which is still another two-tenths of a mile further up the trail. Unfortunately the 200-foot high Calypso Cascades weren't all that impressive during our first visit to these falls on an early-September day. However, during the spring run-off, the falls are usually roaring, as seen in this photo from a more recent hike in late June (below, on the left).
Above Calypso Cascades you'll begin to catch sporadic views of the surrounding mountains, including Longs Peak and Mt. Meeker towards the north.
At 2.7 miles hikers will reach Ouzel Falls, which is a very impressive 40-foot waterfall. Although you can see it from the new footbridge that now spans across Ouzel Creek, you can get a much better view by traveling off trail for a short distance.
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Ouzel Falls, Ouzel Creek and Ouzel Lake (2.25 miles further up the trail) are all named after the water ouzel. These small, slate-grey colored birds, also known as American dippers, are known for bobbing, or dipping, along the rocks around fast moving streams, and diving under water in search of food. Once below the surface of the water the dippers forage by either walking along the stream bottom, or by flying through the water, using their wings to propel themselves through the swift currents.
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Travel Vlog | Denver / Emerald Lake / Rocky Mountain National Park - Part 1
Petra's Uncle and Cousin come to the United States for the first time. Their first stop is Denver, Colorado as they make their way east and eventually fly out of New York City. We take them on a whirlwind tour of Denver, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park and a cozy camper cabin in the mountains of Colorado.
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Rocky Mountain National Park - Cub Lake Trail - Park Travel Review
The next episode of our #RockiesRoadTrip finds is on Cub Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park! This was our first hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. We enjoyed it evening with the rain.
Cub Lake Trail is 2.3 miles long with an elevation gain of 540 feet. You hike to a mountain pond through mostly wooded trail.
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Colorado Vlog=Bear Lake and Alberta Falls
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Colorado June 2010
Bear Lake and Alberta Falls...and a chipmunk!
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The highlight of the climb through the Calypso Falls in the Wild Basin Area of Rocky Mountain National park outside of Estes Park, Colorado, is Ouzel Falls. One can get pretty close and from the forward vantage point, one can get a little wet from the mist.
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Ribbon Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Ribbon Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Shot 9/8/12
Fern Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park
Some GoPro video of Fern Falls from our hike from Bear Lake to Fern Lake
Hiking wild basin, copeland falls, calypso cascades, ouzel Falls in Colorado
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14:45 - Calypso Cascades
23:00 Ouzel Falls
Hiking the wild basin up to the Ouzel falls crossing Calypso Cascades and Copeland Falls. Nice and comfortable hike. Around 3 hours round trip.
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Lost Falls Rocky Mountain National Park
Lost Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park - Sorry for the poor quality of video. This was taken several years ago with a pretty old camera :)
Cub Lake, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, United States
Cub Lake, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA 2005
From Estes Park, continue west on Hwy 36 to the Beaver Meadows entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park. Just beyond the entrance, turn left and head south on Bear Lake Rd. for about 1.3 miles, then turn right (west) toward the Moraine Park Campground (the turnoff is just past a large stand of aspen trees, near the Moraine Park Visitor's Center). This road follows the north side of Moraine Park for about 1/2 mile to another junction. At this junction, turn left toward the Fern Falls And Fern Lake and Cub Lake Trailheads. There are no facilities at the parking lot, but there is a restroom at the Fern Lake parking lot. The trailhead parking lot is small and fills up quickly. If so, you can continue up the road to the Fern Lake parking lot, but this will add about 1 mile if you walk back to the Cub Lake Trail. Be advised that during the busy summer months, even the Fern Lake parking lot can fill up by midmorning.
Cub Lake Rocky Mountains
Deer Mountain, Colorado (KCND)
Rocky Mountain National Park from Deer Mountain
November 3, 2012
Upper Copeland Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Upper Copeland Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Shot 9/5/12
Deer Mountain - Rocky Mountain National Park
Nick Sangetta and Barb Sangetta hike Deer Mountain in the Rocky Mountain National Park on November 10, 2017.
Calypso Cascades, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Calypso Cascades, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Shot 9/5/12