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Estes Park Flood 2013

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Uprooted trees, concrete slabs, plumbing and more clog the Fall River near Fish Hatchery Road on Tuesday. Many lodges and hotels along the road were damaged or isolated by last week's flood.
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Uprooted trees, concrete slabs, plumbing and more clog the Fall River near Fish Hatchery Road on Tuesday. Many lodges and hotels along the road were damaged or isolated by last week's flood.

  • Old Man Mountain towers over the new, wide channel of the Fall River through the Elkhorn Lodge pastures on Tuesday.
  • Peopl carry what they can from businesses on West Elkhorn Avenue as the Fall River covers the west end of downtown Estes Park.
  • Volunteers slog through dirty water to place sandbags along east Elkhorn Avenue on Thursday night.
  • A mini excavator pushes mud off of the Fun City parking lot on Tuesday. Estes Park is starting the long process of recovery, cleaning up and assessing damage.
  • Fish Creek rushes past Scott Avenue, taking part of the street down stream on Thursday. The East side of Fish Creek was isolated by the flood, as the normally small creek washed away streets and bridges.
  • Coffee-colored water streams past local businesses on Friday. WIth an additional six inches of overnight rainfall, all rivers and streams are well out of their banks, completely flooding downtown Estes Park.
  • Brown water flows back into the river bed in Tregent Park on West Elkhorn Avenue on Friday morning. The Fall River came out of its banks on Thursday night.
  • A cyclist attempts a ride down Elkhorn Avenue on Friday morning. By Saturday, the ride was much easier as the rivers receded.
  • A Glen Haven volunteer firefighter talks with a volunteer about experience and helping in the rescue opperations while National Guardsman stands guard on the road into the tiny devistated town. The National Guard is keeping watch and helping to evacuate the remaining residents.
  • The Fall RIver continues on a new path through the Elkhorn Lodge pasture on Tuesday. Last week's flood waters have cut new channels for rivers around Estes Park.
  • Uprooted trees, concrete slabs, plumbing and more clog the Fall River near Fish Hatchery Road on Tuesday. Many lodges and hotels along the road were damaged or isolated by last week's flood.
  • National park trails crews and Alpine Hot Shots help clean up the Riverwalk on Tuesday. The Estes Park area has a long recovery ahead, but many have already begun.
  • Dave Boon, owner of the building housing Range Realty and the Estes Angler, takes a break after removing items from the offices. Estes Park is drying out and cleaning up a week after the rain and floods began.
  • Thom Shafer looks incredulously on the breach in the lower Scott Pond dam on Friday. Saturday's break in the rain gave officials a chance to see damage to infrastructure around the valley.
  • Friends and volunteers begin removing mud from Outdoor World on Saturday. Clean up began almost as soon as rain stopped falling, as Estes Park residents and businesses remover mud and debris.
  • Volunteers help each other across fast-moving water on Elkhorn Ave. on Thursday evening. Residents got together to help sandbag businesses downtown and keep each other as safe as possible.
  • A rainbow reaches from Prospect Mountain into clouds toward blue sky on Wednesday morning. The rain and clouds quickly rolled out to reveal sunshine.
  • Kind Coffee owner Amy Hamrick and Teresa Flicek look through Hamrick's book of people who have helped clean up the coffee shop after the flooding. Twenty-five percent of sales of Kind Coffee's new blend will go to the Town of Estes Park Flood Releaf Fund, started by Susie Masterson of the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce.
  • Julie Pieper shows the effects of long days of recovery from last week's flood. Pieper, co-owner of Poppy's and Mama Rose's, suspects she and her crew will need several weeks to get Mama Rose's open, and a little longer for Poppy's.
  • Carpet, padding and other ruined iteams from the basement of St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church cover the grass near an entrance to the basement. A creek, normally little more thsn a trickle, swelled to flood not only the church, but the east end of Elkhorn Avenue.
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