My favorite location like that is Este park, which is the town right next to rocky mountain national park. Of all the places I've been it's by far the most beautiful. Hell the in the thin 10 mile winding road through a canyon I was stopped by two mountain goats fighting on the road. 30 minutes later, I chilled with some elk, while eatting McDonalds. All this was right before driving to the top of a mountain, called "stair to heaven"