Summer skiers Karl Hudnut and Robert Sequeira both of Nederland take a break in a pullout along Trail Ridge Road on Friday. The road offers easy access to spring snow in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Workers dig out a stairway aroung the Trail Ridge Store in Rocky Mountain National Park on Friday. The national park opened the nation's highest continuous highway over the Continental Divide on Friday.
A couple take photos in front of the snow-covered Alpine Visitor Center on Friday. Rocky Mountain National Park road crews got the Trail Ridge Road open on Friday, by still has work to do to get the visitor center and Trail Ridge Store open for the season.
James McClay of Fairfax, Va., catches his breath on the Alpine Communities Trail above Trail Ridge Road on Friday. The road tops out at 12,183 feet above sea level.
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