Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadow Road
Many Parks Curve, CO

Prominent in the fine panoramic view are several 'parks,' or mountain-enclosed meadows. The long, forested ridges separating these parks are moraines. These are great heaps of rock debris that glaciers pushed or deposited along their sides between 150,000 and 12,000 years ago. To the west of this viewpoint lie the headwalls where these glaciers originated and began their journey to the valley floor.