Snow on Trail Ridge Road is gone, but can you really get into Rocky Mountain National Park?

My latest serving of outrageousness, for the Colorado Sun. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

TIMED ENTRY STARTS SOON, and park managers are already warning of lines at Rocky Mountain National Park. It may take some creative maneuvering to get into the 4th busiest national park.

The big work has been done to clear the highest-elevation continuously paved road, but just because Trail Ridge Road is ready to open next weekend doesn’t mean you’re going to get in the gate at Rocky Mountain National Park to drive it. Park managers are already warning of long lines at the east entrances and that’s before the timed-entry system fires up again.

Illustrator Peter Moore has been giving some thought to what caused the problem and devised some workarounds:

It’s all Ken Burns’ fault, of course. The year his six-part series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” aired on PBS, 2.8 million people visited Rocky Mountain National Park. A decade later, 4.67 million people visited. Now it’s harder to get into Rocky than it’s going to be to crash Taylor Swift a…