Rocky Mountain National Park Buys Cascade Cottages

ESTES PARK, Colo. (CBS4)- The Cascade Cottages have been purchased by Rocky Mountain National Park and will eventually be added to the park.

The cottages are located near the Fall River Entrance to the park. The cottages have been privately owned since 1941.

Park officials said the $3.4 million purchase will protect the 42-acre area for years to come.

"It's a step-by-step completion of the dream that the founders of this park had. When this park was founded, there were many, many in-holdings, many private properties and it was always understood that those properties would revert to the national park and become the heritage of the American people," said Charles Money with the Rocky Mountain Conservancy.

The Rocky Mountain Conservancy received more than 600 individual gifts to help purchase the land.