A Summer Hike at Staunton State Park
It was almost exactly three years since the last time we hiked around Staunton State Park. On this particular (and quite warm) trip, we wanted to make a trip out to Elk Falls Overlook. Our navigational skills, paired with Morsel’s unwillingness to walk in the heat, scrapped that idea. Instead, we walked around the Staunton historic cabins area and through some of the flatter (and more shaded) trails.
Staunton became a state park in the late 1990’s when the land was donated to the State of Colorado by the Staunton family. The park is a total of 3,828 acres, and has a wide variety of ecosystems and rock formations, and has some of the most diverse bird life I’ve seen around the Denver metro area. The trails are good for hikers of all ability level.
