An Illinois family’s first big vacation was interrupted when they came across human remains in Rocky Mountain National Park. Kristin Chavez and her husband were travelling with their 12-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter, driving 15 hours to see Colorado. The family was near Trail Ridge Road, hiking toward the Alpine Visitor Center, when their son wandered off toward a pile of rocks.
“My son states, ‘I think I found a dead body,'” Chavez said. “We kind of laughed it off … there’s no way.”
Park rangers said the snow had melted only two weeks prior to the discovery on June 18, which Chavez originally thought was a prop…