The places that don't make you apologize for the kids. Restaurants with crayons that aren't an afterthought, parks with shade and bathrooms, the ice-cream stop with the line on a hot Tuesday.
A boardwalk BBQ restaurant on Grand Ave with a large local following.
A dine-in and phone-order pizza spot on the boardwalk, in an Old West-style building.
Small-batch ice cream made daily plus burgers and grill fare near the marina and beach, with weekly-rotating flavors.
Seasonal hand-scooped ice cream, soft serve, snow cones, and taffy on Grand Ave, open roughly May through fall.
A National Recreation Trail built in 1913, inside Rocky Mountain National Park, leading to Adams Falls (0.8 miles round trip) and continuing to Lone Pine Lake, Lake Verna, and Spirit Lake.
A wooden boardwalk dating to 1881, originally built by shop owners to keep customers out of mud and dust, now lined with more than 60 shops, restaurants, and bars in Old West-style storefronts.