page_title: Upper Beaver Meadows
section_title: Recreational activities
hierarchical_section_title: Upper Beaver Meadows / Recreational activities
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a black-billed magpie eating a wandering garter snake in the Rocky Mountain National Park.
context_page_description: Upper Beaver Meadows is a montane meadow and visitor attraction in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. The area is known as a good bird-watching spot and its trail leads to a number of other trails within the park. The trails may be used for hiking, snowshoeing, or cross-country skiing.
context_section_description: Activities include hiking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing on Upper Beaver Meadows trail. Upper Beaver Meadows offers two hiking routes. One is on the road which winds along the north side of Beaver Creek for 2 miles (3.2 km). The other is a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) trail that leaves the dirt road, crosses the stream and runs along the south side of the meadow at the base of the moraine. Elk may be seen bedded down among the trees near the trail or along the stream. The trail runs through Upper Beaver Meadows and connects with a number of trails, including Ute Trail, Deer Ridge Trail, Moraine Park, and Windy Gulch.
  Birds like three-toed wood peckers and Williamson's sapsuckers may be seen in Upper Beavers Meadows. Others, found in the grassland, are Green-tailed towhees, Vesper sparrows, and Black-billed magpies. Within the aspens, Warbling vireos, House wrens and Mountain bluebirds may be found. There are a number of kinds of sapsuckers, Downy woodpeckers, Hammond's flycatchers, and other birds along the forested land.
caption: Black-billed magpie eating a wandering garter snake
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