East Side Central
This section of the park includes the most easily accessible and most popular destinations, and therefore the most crowded trails. It features the dramatic glacially carved eastern faces of the mountains along the continental divide just north of Longs Peak. For many people, when you mention Rocky Mountain National Park, these mountains and lakes are what they see in their mind's eye.
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