Q 01/05

Rocky Mountain National Park is in which U.S. state?

A) Wyoming

B) Colorado

C) Montana

D) Utah

Answer · why

B) Colorado

It sits about 55 miles northwest of Denver in the Front Range.

Q 02/05

Which town is the park's eastern gateway, next to the Beaver Meadows entrance?

A) Grand Lake

B) Estes Park

C) Boulder

D) Fort Collins

Answer · why

B) Estes Park

Three of the park's four entrances are on that side; the fourth is on the west side.

Q 03/05

Which president signed the act creating the park on January 26, 1915?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) William Taft

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

A) Woodrow Wilson

A naturalist from Estes Park, a Denver lawyer and a Pennsylvania civic reformer were the leading campaigners behind the bill.

Q 04/05

Which Estes Park naturalist is remembered as the main figure behind the park's creation?

A) John Muir

B) Stephen Mather

C) Isabella Bird

D) Enos Mills

Answer · why

D) Enos Mills

He ran a lodge below the park's highest peak as a summer retreat for writers, and had been told at 13 he had six months to live.

Q 05/05

What is the highest point in the park, at 14,259 feet?

A) Longs Peak

B) Mount Meeker

C) Hallett Peak

D) Ypsilon Mountain

Answer · why

A) Longs Peak

It is the park's only fourteener and the northernmost one in the entire Rocky Mountains.