Rocky Mountain National Park Green Hotels, Lodging & Resorts; Eco Friendly

The lively mountain towns that surround Rocky Mountain National Park offer a variety of choices and accommodations on your visit to this Colorado destination. The lodges, cabins and guest ranches of the surrounding area are taking considerable steps to tread lightly on the terrain they want you to enjoy with their ecotourism efforts.

A business that takes care of its surroundings is one that will make a lasting impression on its guests, not its environment. This should be taken into consideration when choosing between lodging in one of the ten surrounding communities. The most common sustainable practices that we see in place from hotels and dude ranches to luxury lodges include a linen reuse program, on property recycling programs and paperless communication and billing. But these efforts, however minimal, are not all that your lodging property of choice can do. A truly eco minded consumer will look for their lodging to offer amenities that go above and beyond what is easy and obvious. Many of the Rocky Mountain ecotourism properties are utilizing carbon offset programs, refillable toiletries, eco friendly development and energy efficiency. When looking for a lodging choice, consider one that educates not only their guests but their staff about sustainable practices. Your lodging property should make an impression on you rather than the environment.

Lodging is one of the largest industries in the world where amenities exceed all else. The companies promoted on our Ecotourism pages have met a minimum of 10 guidelines from the set standards list and has been approved following an onsite inspection. We are pleased to promote their conservation efforts. To see a complete list of lodging guidelines visit ALLTrips.com.

We welcome any comments or questions that you may as well as further information and resources that we may have overlooked. Please feel free to share your opinions and reviews by contacting us at eco@verticalmedia.com. Thank you for helping us to tread lightly!