Hospitality & Tourism  October 26, 2023

Estes Park businesses offer specials to first responders on fire anniversary

ESTES PARK – Three years after the Cameron Peak and East Troublesome wildfires threatened Estes Park, local businesses are offering specials to first responders, especially those who held back the flames from devastating the town.

The fires threatened the tourist town from two directions for four straight days in October 2020, fueled by winds of up to 80 miles per hour. The East Troublesome fire became the second-largest wildfire in Colorado history, jumping the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park and forcing the evacuation of most of Estes Park. Only a heroic stand by firefighters along Bear Lake…

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