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Moraine Park is another flat, open area, bound on the north and south by glacial moraines created by the Thompson Glacier more than 20,000 years ago. About 12,000 years ago, Moraine Park was a large lake, created by the terminal moraine left by the Glacier. Since then, the terminal moraine has been eroded to drain the lake, and now Big Thompson River flows through the flat valley, filled with silt from the lake.
The most obvious moraine is the South Lateral Moraine. We view this moraine as we travel the Cub Lake trail, one of the two Trailheads in Moraine Park. A variety of trees, birds, and animals inhabit this area, making it a nature lover's paradise.
Abner Sprague, an early settler here, homesteaded 380 acres on the northern slopes of the South Lateral Moraine. Abner's father named the valley.#
