Rocky Mountain NP — Longs Peak

Longs Peak rises to 14,259 feet — the highest summit in Rocky Mountain National Park and one of Colorado's most iconic 14ers. This live camera captures the peak's distinctive flat-topped summit and the sheer 1,000-foot east face known as the Diamond, one of the most challenging alpine climbing walls in the continental United States. The view changes throughout the day as light moves across the granite face. Longs Peak dominates the landscape for hundreds of square miles around Estes Park, Colorado. The peak's summit is reached by an estimated 15,000 climbers each year, mostly via the Keyhole Route — a non-technical but exposed scramble that typically requires a 14 to 16 hour round-trip and an alpine pre-dawn start to beat the near-daily summer thunderstorms. Many attempts are turned back by weather, altitude, or fatigue. Seasonal viewing varies dramatically. Summer brings the cleanest views with deep-blue Colorado skies, scattered cumulus clouds, and afternoon monsoon thunderstorms that build over the high country between July and September. Fall delivers crisp visibility, golden aspens at lower elevations, and the first heavy snows that close higher trails. Winter shows the peak in full white with lenticular cloud formations that can predict approaching storms. The peak is named for Major Stephen Long, who led an 1820 expedition into the Colorado Rockies. Native Americans called the mountain "Two Guides" referring to the twin summits of Longs Peak and Mount Meeker that frame the view from the east. Nearby attractions include Bear Lake, Sky Pond, Loch Vale, the Old Fall River Road, and the Alpine Visitor Center at over 11,700 feet — one of the highest visitor centers in the National Park System.