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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.

November 12, 2015

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