Estes Park, CO - Mid September

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

How is the Estes Park, CO are in Mid September? We have a unit on hold and need to decide whether to keep it or not. It is at the Rams Horn Resort in 2008. I noticed that they have a 1-4 rule, do they enforce it?

[JuneB Member Find all posts View Profile Close JuneB]

I have no idea about the 1 in 4 rule but we will be at Rams Horn over Labor Day.

We have been in Estes many times in Sept. and the weather will be cool but if you plan to do any hiking it is a great time because all the snow will be melted on the higher trails.

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We would love to be in EP, RMNP and at Ram's Horn in September. Nice place, nice place and nice place. That was always a busy month for us, so was never a vacation time. We were always in EP the first of June.

At that time of year, you'll probably find yourself in the middle of a rut.

http://www.estes-park.com/go/elkbugling.html

Call the resort about their rules. They have always been easy to talk to.

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Thanks, we confirmed it today.

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This past September I was on a horse riding trip in the mountains at Buena Vista, CO, (elevation 8500 feet) much further south than Estes Park. It snowed on us one day, and was in the low 20's at night.

Mid September in the Colorado mountains can have very cold weather, so take lots of layers!

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The first week of June can be cold, too. That is normally the week that Trail Ridge is plowed open each year.

Plus, if memory serves me right, EP is 3 or 4 thousand feet higher than Denver, so it is almost always cooler/colder.

I think the Cape Crusader should just come by and pick us up, and let us go along!

This passed September I was on a horse riding trip in the mountains at Buena Vista, CO, (elevation 8500 feet) much further south than Estes Park. It snowed on us one day, and was in the low 20's at night.

Mid September in the Colordo mountains can have very cold weather, so take lots of layers!

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I have not heard about Estes Co in years and now It came up twice in a month. Last month I saw something on TV regarding Estes Park. I think if I did not get my programs confused that there is a famous haunted house there. I knew of Estes since I was a child because I used to build flying model rockets and one of the main company's was Estes from CO.

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The Stanley Hotel is there. It is supposed to be haunted. You can take a tour of it. Something to do with The Shining was shot there. I don't remember if it was the actual move or something else.

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The Stanley Hotel is there. It is supposed to be haunted. You can take a tour of it. Something to do with The Shining was shot there. I don't remember if it was the actual move or something else.

Yep thats the place they had on TV. I saw the show while I was in Vegas.

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I believe Estes Park is where the movie "The Shining" was filmed with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.

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Just found out that one of my co-workers was at that hotel and had lunch there last summer.

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When we usetago, we stayed at the Golden Eagle. Looking toward town from The Golden Eagle, sitting on higher ground on the other side of town is the Old Stanley, so named (as one might expect) because the inventor of the Stanley Steam Engine built it. It's a cool old place.

When we were there once, a movie company was there, at the Stanley. I could google it, of course, but I'm thinking it was for a TV version of the Shining.

When we first went to EP, the Old Stanley was affiliated with RCI.

The Baldpate Inn, across from one of my favorite little fishing places on the outskirts of EP, is also said to be haunted. We had a lunch there, it being recommend by our former veternarian.

What the heck, I did google it:

Ghosts and Hauntings of Estes Park Colorado

It says that Stephen King spent five months at the Stanley writing The Shining, that the area and the Stanley gave him the inspiration for it.

There are other good links for The Stanley on google.

The Shining, Estes Park, the old stanley - Google Search