Megan Schrader, The Denver Post
Denver Post opinion page editor Megan Schrader offers her advice for backpacking in Rocky Mountain National Park with children. Her kids are 6-years-old and 3-years-old and spent six nights at wilderness campsites this summer in Rocky Mountain National Park, hiking in to remote sites about a mile. Here her husband Andrew Schrader hikes with the kids on Sunday Aug. 1 into a wilderness campsite on the western side of the park near Grand Lake.