You enter the park and go to Bear Lake Road (the Road dead ends at Bear Lake) and there is quite a bit of parking unless you get there after 9 AM in the morning.
Bear Lake is the first Lake and has a roughly 1 mile easily accessible for handicap trail around it.
Then you start up a trail that is only accessible by hiking and has a pretty steep incline. The first lake you come to is Nymph Lake. It is covered in lily pads usually and in late summer they have big yellow blooms.
A lot of the trail looks like this with "stairs"
There is a lovely waterfall that comes down just before you crest to the lake.
And some neat bridges that the park made over the streams and marsh areas.
This sign directs to Dream Lake and then Emerald which is the last stop (go right over the little wood plank bridge) - if you go left the lower sign directs you to Lake Hiyaha (which I really need to do one of these days but haven't yet.)
Then there's the lake with Hallet Peak (on left) and Flattop (on right) - it is really a beautiful site.
If you are coming to Rocky to hike it's one I always suggest. It's not horribly difficult but it is not a flat hike it's up and down. But the views are well worth it.
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