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[Aaron]

Estes Park will be getting a new visitors center. The groundbreaking was at 9am today. The new center will be located at the southeast corner of U.S. Highways 36 & 34. The current visitors center is 30 years old and the parking lot capacity is only capable of 24 vehicles. The new visitors center will be 9,000 square feet, have a parking lot to hold 130 vehicles, and other bells and whistles.

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Source: LovelandFYI.com

--Aaron

[retlod]

The Zion NP visitors center sounds similar and it's amazing. Spacious, lots of parking, cooled naturally without AC, lots of cool learning experiences, and two 3D models of Zion Canyon. RMNP deserves something as nice...or nicer! Can you imagine a 3D relief model of the park?!

[Aaron]

Actually, this is a visitors center for Estes Park. They'll have stuff about Rocky Mountain National Park in the center though.

--Aaron

[Marvman]

The visitors center is also where the Estes Park Online webcam is located.

Marvman

[ProfHall]

...and, there is a 3-d relief model/map of the park at the west-side visitors' center. It has trails, peaks, lakes, etc. named on a board on the side (like a map legend) and if you push the button by the name that location lights up in the relief model/map. Pretty cool...

[Aaron]

and if you push the button by the name that location lights up in the relief model/map.  Pretty cool...

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I played with that more than my kids did. I had to quit because I think they were gonna kick me out.

--Aaron

[Marvman]

I heard that they never had any bulbs burn out on that unit, until you showed up. Apparently that day, they had to replace six!

Marvman
(guess the dim bulb thing rubs off, eh?)

[Aaron]

I heard that they never had any bulbs burn out on that unit, until you showed up. Apparently that day, they had to replace six!

Marvman
(guess the dim bulb thing rubs off, eh?)

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They replaced the buttons too!

--Aaron

[ProfHall]

I love how a tidbit of information (there is a 3d model...) becomes the seed of humor. Way to go, Marvman...I believe you can nam-vram just about anything!