Images of Rocky Mountain National Park – Old Fall River Road – Colorado, taken in July 2025.

The Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park was the first automobile road to cross the Continental Divide and reach the park’s high country. Built between 1913 and 1920, it is a 9.4-mile gravel, narrow, winding, one-way uphill road with sharp turns, steep grades and switchbacks. The road begins in the Endovalley (8,638 ft) area and ends at the Alpine Visitor Center (11,796 ft) along the Trail Ridge Road.

FRUSTRATING! Coming across three moose along the Old Fall River Road was amazing, but each time they were backlit by the rising sun, tough to take for a photographer but there is little one can do: everyone, including the moose, frown on a person running circles around wild animals…but how lucky for me to be able to see those magnificent creatures!