ESTES PARK, Colo. (KUSA/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A 12-year-old boy reportedly found human remains "out in the open" near a national park's visitor center while on vacation with his family.

“We drove through the Rocky Mountain National Park and our goal was to get to that Alpine Visitor Center, and my son, who’s 12, he started walking towards the larger pile of rocks,” Chavez ...

If you're not making it a requirement for yourself to start your trip at the visitor center, you're missing out. National park visitor centers are not just a place to grab a map.

It was a human skeleton a few hundred feet away from the Alpine Visitor Center. Park rangers told Chavez the snow melted in that area just two weeks before, but she still wondered why no one found ...

It was a human skeleton a few hundred feet away from the Alpine Visitor Center. Park rangers told Chavez the snow melted in that area just two weeks before, but she still wondered why no one found ...

“We decided to take our first big family vacation. It was my husband, myself, our 12-year-old son and our 5-year-old daughter,” Chavez said. They drove 15 hours. “We drove through the Rocky Mountain ...