Today, Rocky Mountain National Park is taking over our Instagram account – celebrating its 100th anniversary, while honoring the wilderness, wildlife and wonder of the park. 

Over 95 percent of Rocky Mountain National Park is designated Wilderness, an untrammeled landscape where humans are only visitors. Setting off on any of Rocky’s 355+ trails will leave you with a wilderness experience to last a lifetime.

Rocky Mountain National Park is home to an abundance of wildlife. Perhaps the most famous are the elk.

For over 100 years Rocky Mountain National Park has inspired wonder. Many have visited, looked up at the same night sky, and pondered their future. Feeling dwarfed by the stars or a mountain peak keeps life in perspective.

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Your daily dose of cute! A mama moose helps her baby cross the Colorado River at Rocky Mountain National Park. Moose usually have one or two calves in early summer, and the babies stay with their mother for a year. For more great pictures of Rocky Mountain, check out our stellerstories at http://on.doi.gov/1JYXt0G.

National Park Service photo.

A stunning ‪alpenglow ‎sunrise‬ over Dream Lake at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Photo by Malcolm Boshier (www.sharetheexerperience.org).