Sat, Aug 24: Come and learn about the art of sculpture with #RMNP Artist-in-Residence Joe Norman! Fall River Visitor Center, 11A, 2-hour program; participants stay as long as you choose. And you can use small cutouts of cardboard & foam to assemble your own sculptures!

Showers & thunderstorms will move off the foothills north of Boulder between 2 - 3 PM, with scattered showers/storms in the Denver area by 4 PM. Wind gusts up to 45 mph will accompany some of the storms. Brief heavy rain is also possible. Storms will pass by early evening. #cowx

A flood advisory is in effect for the Rustic area in the Cameron Peak burn area until 3:30 PM. The main concern is minor flooding along Highway 14 west of Rustic. Be alert for possible rocks/water/mud on the highway and high water in creeks/gulches in this area. #cowx

A line of thunderstorms will move across the Denver metro area through 4 PM. Brief heavy rain can be expected, and wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible. #cowx

Weather permitting, Mon-Fri thru Wed, Aug 28, #RMNP roads & parking areas will be striped. Daytime and nighttime work to take place. Days: expect rolling delays up to 30 minutes. Most parking area work will be at night. No striping work Sat-Sun.

Happy Birthday, National Park Service! Fun fact-#RMNP is one of 35 national parks & monuments established before the creation of the NPS. Today, there are 430 units of the NPS located in all 50 states, District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, & US Virgin Islands.

Weather permitting, Mon-Fri thru Wed, Aug 28, #RMNP roads & parking areas will be striped. Daytime and nighttime work to take place. Days: expect rolling delays up to 30 minutes. Most parking area work will be at night. No striping work Sat-Sun.

#RMNP QUOTE OF THE WEEK In wildness is the preservation of the world. -Henry David Thoreau (NPS image of alpine peaks and tundra /K. Daugherty)

📆7 Day Planner Warm and mainly dry weather expected, with temperatures averaging a couple degrees above normal. Hotter weather Wednesday, and then a little cooldown for Thursday. #COwx

Weather permitting, Mon-Fri thru Wed, Aug 28, #RMNP roads & parking areas will be striped. Daytime and nighttime work to take place. Days: expect rolling delays up to 30 minutes. Most parking area work will be at night. No striping work Sat-Sun.

Planning trips to #RMNP between Oct 1 & 20? Beginning Sun, Sept 1, 8A MDT, make reservations online at recreation.gov, via the Recreation.gov mobile App, or call 1-877-444-6777. Choose Timed Entry (no access to Bear Lake Road) or Timed Entry + Bear Lake Road.

🌡️Summer heat returns today Highs reach 90-95F across the plains and I-25 Corridor. Isolated gusty shower possible late today and tonight. 7 Day planner here, too. #COwx

Weather permitting, Mon-Fri thru Wed, Aug 28, #RMNP roads & parking areas will be striped. Daytime and nighttime work to take place. Days: expect rolling delays up to 30 minutes. Most parking area work will be at night. No striping work Sat-Sun.

ASTRONOMY IN THE PARK, Fri, Aug 30, 8:30P Come join #RMNP staff & volunteer astronomers at Upper Beaver Meadows Trailhead. This will be our last "Astronomy in the Park" program of the year. Free program. Limited Parking/arrive early. All night sky programs are weather permitting.

#RMNP QUOTE OF THE WEEK We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. –Wallace Stegner (NPS/Trail Ridge Rd)

Wilderness is wild. It offers visitors a place to seek relaxation, adventure and solitude. Today, we celebrate 60 years of the Wilderness Act of 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this Act into law "...for the permanent good of the whole people." Photo by M. Meisenheimer

The next (& last for this season) Artist-In-Residence is Jeremy Shellhorn. On Wed, Sept 4 & 11, drop by Fall River Visitor Center any time from 12-2P & stay as long as you like for his program, "Drawing with Scissors," and learn about his creative process to create paper collages

There are snowflakes possible on Trail Ridge Road, the Alpine Visitor Center, and other areas at high elevations in #RMNP tonight & tomorrow morning. BE PREPARED & AWARE! Alpine Visitor Center point forecast: forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?l…

The complete #RMNP fire ban since Aug 1 is lifted. RMNP always has Stage 1 fire restrictions, so campfires are prohibited in RMNP except in designated campfire rings in picnic areas & campgrounds. OK: portable charcoal grills; wood fuel camp stoves; propane/butane-fuel gas stoves

Showers will move onto the plains during the early afternoon, crossing Denver between about 1 PM and 3 PM. An isolated thunderstorm with brief heavy rain and wind gusts to 35 mph is possible. Additional showers are likely this evening. #cowx