"Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park - Then and Now"
Website Updated on 9/24/17
In 2002, three individuals with an extreme interest in the Estes Park area and its history teamed up
to produce one of the most graphic and authoritative works yet which documented both the town and
Rocky Mountain National Park, it's history and the colorful individuals responsible for its development.
And in 2006 it was complete after very painstacking work to state the history in words, and then the
sights in then and now photographs.
Jim Pickering, Cary Stevanus, and Mic Clinger spent countless hours together researching all 130 sites;
gathering historic photos, researching the history, and then rephotographing each of these sites
to show how they each had changed over time.
The book as shown above was nominated for and won the Colorado Book of the Year Award!
It sold out of its first printing of 5,000 copies in less than two years.
The second printing of 2,000 also sold out in about a year and a half. Stormed by the economic
challenges of eBooks and the internet, the publisher decided not to reprint the book a third time.
But it still remained very much in demand, with copies retailing for over $100 dollars on
eBay and Amazon.
In 2016, Jim Pickering and Mic Clinger revisited the idea of reprinting the book
as well as expaniding the list of sites. The historic flood of 2013, the Park Theater Mall fire,
as well as other natural and man-made developments have continued to change the sites and
history of the area. This Revised and Expanded edition seeks to document all of that.
And it is almost complete! Jim and Mic were joined by Derek Fortini, Director of the
Estes Park Historical Museum, also with an avid interest in history of the area and with a
very keen eye for rephotography as well! The three set out to repeat and improve
if possible, the success of the first edition with the updates as well as 55 new sites!
Please stay tuned as this web site will be continually updated with the progress.
The current projected date for its release is February 2018!
(Publising details will be released soon!)
Featured List of Sites
(Note: Site names borderd with the asterisks are new sites.
These sites have links links that take you to a sample of the site.)
1919 Miller Panorama of Estes Park
Estes Park from the Birch Ruins
** Park Theater Mall after the Fire **
Stanley Hotel
Complete List of Sites
(Note: Site names borderd with the asterisks are new sites.
Also, some of these are links that take you to a sample of the site.)
Rocky Mountain Jim Cabin Site
Estes Park from Mount Olympus
** 1927 Estes Family Reunion **
Estes-Evans-Dunraven Ranch
Charles Partridge Adams House
Dunraven Cottage and Estes Park Hotel
** 1887 Turists at the Dunraven Cottage **
Estes Park Hotel
Front Range from Prospect Mountain
Longs Peak from Dollar Lake
Cheley Colorado Camps
Marys Lake
** Marys Lake - Second site **
** Old Road past Marys Lake **
Beaver Point
Rocky Mountain National Park 1923 Headquarters
** The Lone Pine Trading Post **
** Rimrock **
The Y-Big Thompson Entrance to the Rocky Mountain National Park
Holland Inn
YMCA of the Rockies
** East Portal of Colorado Big Thompson Project **
Mountain Side Lodge
Wigwam Tea Room
** F. O. Stanley 1903 Cottage at Rockside **
F. O. Stanley House
Estes Park Hatchery
Stanley Power Plant
McCreery Cabin
North St. Vrain Road (U.S. 36)
** 1930 Junction Mall Road and U.S. 36 **
South St. Vrain Road
Big Thompson Road
** Elkhorn Looking West **
Al Birch House
Estes Park from the Birch Ruins
** St. Walter's Michael's Catholic Church **
Sam Service Store
** Prospect Inn **
** Young Girls and View Across Bond Park **
** Macdonald Laundry **
** Estes Park 1914 Post Office **
** Estes Park 1950 Chamber of Commerce Building/Library in Bond Park **
** Estes Park High School Auditorium/Town Hall **
** High School Football Field **
Original (1915) Rocky Mountain National Park Headquarters
John Edward Macdonald Home and Store
Josephine Hotel
** Josephine Hotel - Old Plantation **
Riverside Amusement Park
National Park Hotel
William T. Parke Store
Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Building
** Post Park Theater Mall Fire **
Hupp Hotel
Manford Hotel
Estes Park Bank
** Macdonald and Son **
Ye Lyttel Shop
** Downtown Estes Park Scenes **
** Gracecraft Shope **
** Monroe Livery **
** 1941 Post OFfice **
** View down Moraine (Park Theater without Tower) **
** Sherman House/Telephone Office **
Estes Park from West End
Lewiston Hotel
Estes Park from Oldman Mountain
Oldman Mountain Ski Site
Crags Hotel
** Nye's Cottage **
Boyd House
** Estes Park Museum **
** Stanley Field/Park: 1919 Landing **
** Pathway to Stanley **
** Stanley Golf Course **
Elkhorn Lodge
** Elkhorn Golf Course **
MacGregor Ranch
McGraw Ranch
Rustic Hotel
Olympus Lodge
Crocker Ranch
Estes Park Chalets
Ferguson's Highlands Ranch
Baldpate Inn
Wind River Ranch
Columbines Lodge
Hewes-Kirkwood Inn
Lambs Ranch and Longs Peak Inn
** Longs Peak Inn **
** What Not Inn **
** Meeker Park Lodge **
** Wild Basin Lodge **
Horseshoe Park
** Entrance Station on Fall River Road **
** Entrance Station in Horseshoe Park **
** Big Thompson Entrance Station **
Fall River Lodge
** Fall River Loadge" Lake/Rock **
March Homestead
Cascade Lodge
Richmond Homestead and Horseshoe Park
CCC Camp in Little Horseshoe Park
Deer Ridge Chalet
Hupp Homestead
Hondius Ranch
** Hondius Ranching in Horseshoe Park **
Camping in Moraine Park
Chapman Ranch
Eaton House
William Allen White Cabin
** Funston Rock in Morraine Park **
The Scottage
Moraine Lodge
** Woods Cottages **
Spragues Ranch and Steads Ranch and Hotel
Brinwood Ranch and Hotel
Forest Inn
Fern Lake Lodge
CCC Camps in Hallowell Park
Rocky Mountain Boys Camp
Spragues Lake
Bear Lake and Bera Lake Lodge
Old Fall River Road
** Switchbacks **
Trail Ridge Road
Fall River Pass Photos
Poudre Lake
Indian Head Rock
Trail Tidge Road
Rock Cut
** Rock Cut Looking West **
Holzwarth Trout Lodge and Never Summer Ranch
Camp Wheeler
Lulu City
** 1889 Town of Grand Lake from Above **
Grand Lake
Grand Lake Lodge
** West Portal **
Eugenia Mine
Timberline Cabin
Agnes Vaille Shelter Cabin
The Keyhole