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For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter.
But summer can transform these Alpine tundra environments into scenery blossoming with life. For a few short weeks between late June and the end of August, wildflowers bloom magnificent colors as yellow-bellied marmots soak up the sun and pikas scurry around the rocks.
As the name would suggest, much of Summit County exists above tree line, meaning these beautiful — but highly fragile — Alpine environments are not far away anywhere in the county.
Alpine tundra environments are found at high elevations worldwide, according to Colin Lee, a horticulturist with Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail. Colorado’s Rocky Mountains host over 300 endemic Alpine species that can’t be found anywhere else, he said.
