Lonely Planet Asia - June 2016

AMERICAN ROCKIES

GREAT ESCAPE

Great Escape

Winter has an awesome beauty in the American Rockies: explore a small

but star-studded stretch in Colorado and Wyoming, starting with a capital

of craft beer, before heading into the mountains for snowshoe hikes,

wildlife-rich national parks and the planet’s most spectacular geysers

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

WORDS RORY GOULDING @RGouldingTravel O PHOTOGRAPHS PETE SEAWARD @Petersphotos

A view towards

4,011-metre-high Taylor

Peak, one of the points

along the Continental

Divide of the Americas,

inside Colorado’s

snowbound Rocky

Mountain National Park