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Grandlakeguide.Com Images of Rocky Mountain National Park Fine Art Photographic Prints for the Home and Office Grand Lake SINCE 1995 PRICELESS & SURROUNDING AREA SPRING 2016 WINTER 2017 GUESTGUIDE The Official Guide Book On What To Do And Where To Go™ Rocky Mountain National Park Map Town & Area Maps Greater Granby Information grandlakeguide.com Images of Rocky Mountain National Park Fine Art Photographic Prints for the Home and Office. TWO LOCATIONS: G L A G I RMNP 1117 Grand Avenue 203 Park Lane Grand Lake, Colorado Estes Park, Colorado : www.ImagesofRMNP.com : Facebook.com/MorningLightPhotography table of contents Maps Grand Lake Town Map ............................24-25 Featured Articles Granby Map ......................................................26 Publisher’s Note ...............................................6 Area Map ...............................................Insert Outstanding Grand Lake ................................ 7 Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain National Park ................8-9 National Park Map .........................Insert Wild About Animals ....................................12-13 Colorado Headwaters Land Trust .............59 Thanks to our partners! What to Do High-Altitude Hints .....................................10-11 Summer Activities ......................................14-19 Weddings/Special Events .......................20-21 We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Snowmobiling............................................22-23 many individuals not directly connected with GuestGuide® Winter Activities .......................................28-29 whose assistance has been immeasurable in the Nordic Skiing/Snowshoeing .......................30 completion of this edition. Calendar of Events ..................................32-35 Every effort has been made to ensure information in this book is accurate; however, things may change. The facts and figures can be out-of-date after press time. We regret Charts any errors that may appear in this publication. Important Phone Numbers .........................36 Publisher: Susie Masterson CELEBRATING CELEBRATING Editor-in-Chief: Helen Masterson Dining/Catering ........................................ 38-39 Editor: Mercedes Hernandez Lodging ........................................................44-45 Contributing Writers: Michele Hedlund Things To Do ..............................................48-49 Steve Mitchell Graphic Design: Lauren Graphics, Inc. Shopping & Services ......................................51 Lauren Klopfenstein Matt McKendree YEARS YEARS Kelli Escalante Business Listings GUESTGUIDE GUESTGUIDE Huge thanks to the invaluable GuestGuide team: PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS Dining/Catering ..........................................40-41 Pat Berger Maire Sullivan Janet Engel Lori Scott Lodging .........................................................41-43 Louise Powers Things To Do - Year Round ..........................46 Things To Do - Summer ................................47 Another thanks for the use of their photos to Aaron Ayotte, Things To Do - Winter....................................48 Art Ferrari, Marsha Hobert, Dick Orleans, James Frank, Love Roots Photography, Susie Masterson, Peter Ismert, Erik Stensland, Shopping .......................................................... 50 Granby Ranch, Snow Mountain Ranch/YMCA of the Rockies, Special Services .......................................52-56 Cathie Hook and the Granby Chamber. Weddings/Event Services ......................57-58 Cover Image by Erik Stensland, Images of RMNP Copyright 2016 GuestGuide Publications, LLC Celebrating the National Park Grand Lake GuestGuide, The Official Guide Service Centennial! Book to Grand Lake, Winter Park GuestGuide, The Official Guide Book to Winter Park, The Grand County Menu Guide, The Official Hiking Guide to Grand County are registered trademarks of GuestGuide Publications, LLC, publishers of official guide books. All rights reserved under U.S. Copyright Laws. No articles, maps, GUESTGUIDE illustrations or other portions of this book may be reproduced in any form without written Happy 100th to permission from GuestGuide Publications, LLC. Grand Lake the Middle Park Fair & Rodeo GuestGuide is published annually. We also publish guide books for Winter Park, Estes Park and RestaurantESTES PARK Moab, Utah. Visit our publications G UIDE website for more information or to order a copy of one of our other publications. ™ www.guestguidepublications.com 4 2016 GRAND LAKE GUESTGUIDE® PUBLISHER'S note OUTSTANDINGGrand Lake BEAUTIFUL THE HEART A new watershed ethic is taking root Barbeque, Spirit of LAKE TOWN OF SOMETHING GRAND here in Grand Lake and it’s focused on our the Lake Regatta, and Grand Lake has Granby was once a tiny ranching and outstanding waterways. “Outstanding Constitution Week. cobalt blue skies, farming community that has become Grand Lake” is a grassroots movement It also opens doors the largest natural a destination for both vacationers and toward sustainable community to new partnerships body of water second homeowners. Centrally located development, marketing, and education, in “Citizen Science” in Colorado, between Winter Park and Grand Lake, emphasizing our unique relationship with Shadowcliff, headquartered in Grand and 12,007ft at the intersection of the county’s two with Colorado’s largest natural lake and Lake, offering workshops in watershed Mount Baldy as main highways, US Hwy 40 and US Hwy neighboring waters. sustainability, along with Infinite a backdrop. With all of that, plus the 34, Granby has become a popular spot for The “Outstanding” concept grew out West, a local group focused on better snowcapped Never Summer Range, the many activities in Grand County. of a local Rotary effort to refurbish the stewardship of natural resources through you can see why the travel writer for Granby is best known for its family- Information Kiosk in Grand Lake Town connected collaboration and education World Property Journal friendly atmosphere. A Park. Working with Town Trustees for sustainable healthy communities, ranked the town of Grand designated “Colorado Main and the Chamber of Commerce, local economies, and environment. Lake number one in the “It’s the most Street”, cute retail shops Rotarians are repurposing the old Rocky Grand County Water Information “Authentic” Small Town beautiful place dot the town and a variety Mountain Repertory ticket booth in Town Network (GCWIN), also headquartered List. To quote the Journal: of lodging is available from Park into a family-friendly Trailhead Hub here in Grand Lake, promotes outdoor “… this town has wood- I’ve ever seen.” quaint motels to lodge to guide visitors watershed education, — Anthony Melchiorri planked sidewalks, funky rooms on the lake. around town and including the popular Travel Channel Western restaurants, Granby is accessible by beyond into Rocky Watershed Week friendly folks with wide smiles and Amtrak train, and has it’s own airport. Mountain National where local students cowboy hats, fresh mountain air, Park, Arapaho get outside to craftspeople in colorful old studios, DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS National Recreation perform real scientific GuestGuide’s relationship with Grand Area, and Grand Lake measurements quaint bookshops and galleries, first- Lake started back when the Editor was class live theater.” Metro Recreation including “bug counts” just a child. Family vacations spent at the District. During early that monitor local Grand Lake is one of Colorado’s oldest Grand Lake Lodge started what would resorts. Never a big mining or ski town, project scoping, a stream health. Rotary become a lifetime of loving this area. visiting preschool has worked with GCWIN the town of Grand Lake began as a We have now teamed up with both supply center in 1879 when gold and teacher suggested to bring a water-quality the Grand Lake and Granby Chambers of artistic, knee-high perspective to the silver were discovered nearby in the Commerce to bring you this book. Colorado River. The amounts of gold and panels with a internationally popular Some say print is dead, that “everyone watershed theme Geocaching sites in the silver were small and Grand Lake survived uses the Internet”. But that’s so by becoming a lakeside resort in the early inside the kiosk, so area. We’re looking at impersonal, and not completely true. We that younger kids how me might set up 1880s. What gold and silver couldn’t do, know that our readers can research and the motor vehicle did. Although a two-day can learn as well. a local water-quality get ideas from Google. So we try to give Involving youngsters testing lab to help drive from Denver, this area attracted ideas and perspectives from us. We love families who built summer homes along is a key element of USEPA, the US Bureau to do all the things we write about, so we the Outstanding Grand Lake outreach. The of Reclamation, and our own Three Lakes the shores of the lake as early as 1902. write in a way that we would want to get Many of the homes around the lake have Grand Lake Rotary Kiosk will showcase Watershed Association monitor water the information. We work hard to develop the aquatic world kids might encounter quality while bringing technical jobs to been in the same family for generations. a relationship. We hear from so many Walking on the wooden boardwalks and when hiking in the area with their the community. of you thanking us for a certain bit of families–like fish and otter in the lake, Working together, Outstanding Grand browsing in the unique downtown shops information. We love that! Take advantage and restaurants, you will
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