Rocky Mountain Ntnl Park , Adams Falls hike

Located outside the park entrances, Adams Falls is accessed via the East Inlet trailhead just outside of Grand Lake. It is a large and quite busy trailhead as it leads the hiker past two water falls and numerous lakes and meadows without the need to pay for the National Park fees.

Our goal was the first set of falls, Adams Falls located only 0.3 miles from the trailhead, where we stopped to take a few photos of the falls and the plant life just beginning to bloom. While there, another couple of hikers informed us of two Moose up the trail a few minutes, so we hiked off to see if we can find them.

Where the trail opened up to a marshy meadow we spied a Moose a hundred yards out in the meadow, grazing under a tree. A few more minutes of hiking along the trail stirred a gentle rustling of tree branches just yards away. When I stopped to peak through, the baby Moose was standing not 30-feet from me. Momma and baby moose having breakfast and here we are too, how cool is that.

We positioned ourselves to take some photos without getting too close to the little one. Momma Moose kept a watchful eye on us, but did not seem threatened by us and never moved any close to protect the little one. Of course, I had brought the wrong camera lense so I was stuck without any good zoom, but the experience was great none the less.