<p><br> Frosted with snow, Bear Lake gleams beneath distant Longs Peak and Keyboard of the Winds. The lake is one of the few high-mountain lakes in <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/united-states/colorado-guide/" target="_blank">Colorado</a> reachable on a paved road.</p>

Bear Lake


Frosted with snow, Bear Lake gleams beneath distant Longs Peak and Keyboard of the Winds. The lake is one of the few high-mountain lakes in Colorado reachable on a paved road.

Photograph by Robert Harding World Imagery, Alamy

Pictures: Rocky Mountain National Park

Straddling the Continental Divide, Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park boasts some of the most spectacular high-mountain landscapes in the U.S.

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