(Updated March 24, 2024)
These are the best Colorado webcams from Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, south along the Peak-to-Peak Highway to Nederland, then to Boulder, Denver, and Pikes Peak — the highlights of Colorado’s Front Range. Some of these cameras are live streaming and the others update at various intervals. All images on this page are actual screenshots from the respective cameras.
Jump to cameras on this page:
Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park and Horsetooth Reservoir
Peak-to-Peak Highway
(for more views and travel information along the Peak-to-Peak Highway and statewide, see CDOT’s newly redesigned website)
Niwot Ridge, Nederland, and Boulder
Denver, Red Rocks, and Pikes Peak
Many webcams have come and gone over the years. Defunct cameras have been moved to another page.
General information, RMNP
YouTube suggestions
Estes Park
Indian Peaks Wilderness (south of Rocky Mountain National Park)
James Peak Wilderness (south of Indian Peaks Wilderness)
Niwot Ridge Research Station
Old Fall River Road
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park — Erik Stensland’s channel
Rocky Mountain National Park hikes
Trail Ridge Road
Road conditions
National Park Service (includes local roads inside park: call 970-586-1222 for recorded message)
Colorado Department of Transportation (best for current highway conditions)
If you are approaching Estes Park from the south on Hwy 7 and are headed to the park, you can take Marys Lake Road (map) to avoid the congestion in downtown Estes.
Weather conditions
Rocky Mountain National Park weather
Weather.com
Estes Park Weather private weather station
RMNP mileages, elevations, and alerts
Rocky Mountain National Park Mileages and Elevations
*Boulderflatironcam.com – Used with permission
**Estesparkwebcams.com – Used with permission
Great news! Have really been missing my daily visit with the Alpine VCtr cam– forgot about CDOT views, and thanks for researching these new options!
I visit some of these cameras so often that I feel like a stalker.
YEA! I’ll stalk along!
🙂
AH, all listed in one place!
(Snow on Pikes Peak last week? Early winter? Need one of those mosquito killer ones this year fo sure)
Trying to make this page a one-stop shopping list for everyone. Afraid I might be overdoing it, but I’m sort of committed now.
One of the ranges on the western slope got snow on all its peaks last week. Trying not to get too excited. After all, it’s still August.
Please – a bit of hope. HA HA
Always hopeful. Remember, some of those little snowfields up on Trail Ridge Road last all summer.
These webcams are great. I watched falcons living on the tower of Lincoln Cathedral for a long time. Great if the catch other things too. Love Estes Park. thanks for sharing this.
Thank you. It’s my pleasure. I visit most of these cams every day.
Would love to see “LIVE” video streaming of the Aerial Tram in Estes Park instead of a still picture that refreshes ever 5 seconds. It says sound on that one too and there is not sound.
Apparently the camera owner made some changes since I last checked. I’ll correct that listing right away. Thanks for the heads up.
Both Aerial Tram cams are streaming properly now, but without sound.
Too bad the Estes Park Tram cam and cam looking West is gone.
I took them down because they aren’t working now. If the owner gets them started up again, I’ll bring them back. They were two of my favorites.
They’re back!
Okay your page is my new distraction. and it gave me another idea. All around Guam Webcams.
Glad you like it. But I warn you, webcams can be addictive! Not a day goes by that I don’t check one or more of these webcams to see what’s going on elsewhere, usually in the mountains. And they’re always changing, depending on the weather or time of day.
Just so you know, I bookmarked this post.
As a kid I loved Red Rocks. I often visit the cam so I can see a land I love. I still have family, Estes Park actually, in CO. My Conifer and Evergreen peeps moved to warmer year round pastures. Thanks for the bookmarks!
Oh, as a thanks…here ya go, my ‘new’ home town’s cams. First is our surf cam. I sea kayak, surf by Boogie Board, Beach, and sail..all things that are challenging on the high plains and front range. Trust me, I tried. As a kid I used to jump off the cliffs into the chutes of the South Platte. The equivalent here is illegally jumping off the piers when the surf is up.
https://www.muskegonsurfcam.com/
And this is our NOAA cam. We cannot live without NOAA and the Coast Guard. Maybe you can catch a Freighter in one.
https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/mkg/
It’s beautiful and very different from my beloved front range…but I don’t get altitude sickness here.
I’m delighted I could provide you with some “visits” back to Colorado. Your Muskegon views remind me of my years in Oswego, NY, on Lake Ontario. Quite the experience for me, with surf, ocean-going ships, water I couldn’t see across (I’m from Oklahoma originally), lake effect snow in the winter, etc. Yes, definitely very different from the Front Range.
(BTW, love your screen name.)
TY. Yeah…we don’t have the snow of upper New York. The Upper Peninsula does.
I see now that dunelight is your blog name. (I’ve been browsing over there.) It really is all about the light, isn’t it?
Fortunately the snow here is only occasional and doesn’t stick around for long. Upper NY it was deep and stayed deep all winter. At least that’s how I remember it.
What I loved about Colorado snow was that it snowed, then the sun came out and you could shovel without a coat, comfortable in a Tshirt.
Yep, that’s exactly what happened. Some people were even in shorts. But shoveling this last snow was really hard work. Keeping warm was easy once the wind stopped.
These Webcams look interesting. Oh, how I miss the lovely fall colors prevalent in snow country areas.
They are a lot of fun. I get a kick out of seeing what’s going on in places I can’t easily visit.
This makes me miss Colorado. I used to fly up there (from PHX) quite often. Reminds me that I haven’t been there for awhile.
We’re still here! You need to come back for a visit. I’ve never been to Phoenix but would like to visit someday.
How amazing!
I spend an inordinate amount of time with this page and these webcams.
So amazing and wonderful. Anita
It’s hard to go wrong with subject matter like this.
Ok
You sure do live in a bee-yoo-tiful place, Susan !
Thanks for all these: I’m going to be checking out every single one. 🙂
It is gorgeous, isn’t it!? Bear in mind our time difference — you won’t see much when it’s dark here. Also, most of the cameras face west, so earlier in the day is better.