>>956146I actually just came from there over Christmas. Backpacked up to Flattop Mountain. It's sad that it took us 4 days to do go up and back considering it's only like 12 miles, but that snow gets crazy deep and snow shoes are slow moving. Great experience though. Never camped in a blizzard before.
The west side of the park was extremely beautiful, but they don't open up Trail Ridge until like June. We saw some beautiful stuff on the northern end of the park, but didn't get a chance to hike/camp any of it