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title: "Trail Ridge Road, above the trees"
date: "2025-09-18"
location: "Rocky Mountain National Park"
country: "United States"
lat: 40.3428
lng: -105.6836
photos: 3
weather: true
weatherData: { tempMin: -1.2, tempMax: 14, code: 2, precipitation: 0, windMax: 11, source: "open-meteo", recordedAt: "2026-09-06T08:32:19.620Z" }
---

Eighteen kilometres of road above the tree line, in September, with elk on the verge behaving as though the car were weather.

Snow flurry at the top at two in the afternoon, gone by the time we were down the other side.