Rocky Mountain Wildflowers — Bernie Nagy Photographer

Mount Evans Highway is now open for the 2021 season! Enjoy Seeing Early Wildflowers and Lively Mountain Goats at the Top

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Mount Evans Highway is now open for the 2021 season! Enjoy Seeing Early Wildflowers and Lively Mountain Goats at the Top

Mount Evans Highway, Colorado Highway 5, is now open to the public  for the 2021 season. Reservations are required for vehicles. Enjoy seeing early alpine wildflowers and the antics of mountain goats at the top.

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See Colorado's Abundant Wildflowers at the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival.

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See Colorado's Abundant Wildflowers at the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival.

The Crested Butte Wildflower Festival in July is one of the best places to see and learn about Colorado's wildflowers. Look for Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Field Guide by Linda Nagy at the wildflower headquarters and other locations in town for help in identifying all the flowers you see.

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Wild Irises in Colorado’s High Country

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Wild Irises in Colorado’s High Country

Wild Irises bloom in South Park Colorado in late spring and summer at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet.

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Hikes in Placer Valley, near Alma and in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado by Linda and Bernie Nagy to Identify Wildflowers.

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Hikes in Placer Valley, near Alma and in the Mosquito Range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado by Linda and Bernie Nagy  to Identify Wildflowers.

In July and August of this year, my husband and I volunteered for the Fairplay Library in Colorado to take groups on wildflower identification and photography hikes. The first hike was up Buckskin Gulch to Kite Lake. Paintbrushes, chiming bells, and mountain parsley were abundant. Around Kite Lake we saw marsh marigolds and alp lilies and many varieties of higher elevation wildflowers.   In August we hosted a group from the Boys and Girls Club. The hike was a path in Placer Valley along the Middle fork of the Platte River. Some stand out wildflowers were sulphur buckwheat, tall chiming...

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Alpine Wildflowers Abound at Mount Evans, CO.

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Alpine Wildflowers Abound at Mount Evans, CO.

Even though wildflowers are blooming about 2 weeks late in the high country of Colorado this year, it appears it’s going to be a great season for viewing the beauties. Recently Bernie and I went to Mount Evans and started our visit at the Dos Chapel Nature Center, that has an alpine flower garden built around it. We were amazed at the number of wildflowers beginning to bloom there. We met a volunteer who enthusiastically pointed out the Goldflower, Sky Pilot, Alpine Avens, Alpine Phlox and Snowball Saxifrage. We showed her our book, Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Field Guide that included...

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