Discover Estes Park
8 carefully curated photography spots with GPS coordinates, shooting tips, and local insights
Estes Park
Located at the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, offering stunning mountain vistas and abundant wildlife photography opportunities.
Lake Estes Trail
A scenic trail circling Lake Estes, offering photo ops of elk, reflected clouds in the water, and the Stanley Hotel in the distance.
Lake Estes
A large lake offering scenic views with the surrounding mountains and opportunities to capture wildlife.
Knoll-Willows Open Space
Located near Estes Park, this open space offers mountain views and natural scenery, suitable for landscape and nature photography.
Viestenz-Smith Park
Located in Estes Park, this park offers beautiful mountain views, a river, and fun sculptures. It is a restored area with a natural and scenic setting.
The Stanley Hotel
A historic hotel with stunning architecture and scenic views of the surrounding mountains, perfect for architectural photography.
MacGregor Ranch
A working ranch with sweeping meadows, barns, and cattle set against jagged ridgelines, offering a pure Colorado aesthetic.
Rocky Mountains Fossils and Jewelry LLC
Located at 431 W Elkhorn Ave in the heart of Estes Park, this shop offers a unique urban photography opportunity that blends quaint mountain town architecture with a specialized thematic focus on fossils and jewelry. Photographers can capture the storefront’s rustic mountain-town charm, detailed window displays highlighting fossil specimens and jewelry, and the subtle interplay of natural light on textured wood, stone, and metal surfaces. The location’s proximity to downtown Estes Park allows capturing candid street scenes featuring tourists and locals against a backdrop of the Rocky Mountains foothills.