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The lake is roughly a mile and a half (2.4 km) long and half a mile (800 m) wide reaching depths of 180 feet (55 m). It is surrounded by the Flat Tops Mountains, the most striking of which is the large semicircular Amphitheater which has a height of 1,650 ft (503m). Trappers Lake is the second-largest natural lake in Colorado after Grand Lake. [2]
Crater Lake is a mountain lake in the Elk Mountains, Pitkin County of the US State of Colorado. [1] It lies just northeast of the Maroon Bells and just northwest of Pyramid Peak. The view of the striated Maroon Bells from Crater Lake and the view from nearby Maroon Lake are two of the most photographed mountain scenes in the United States.
La Poudre Pass Lake (3,101 m (10,174 ft)) is a small lake located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States. [1] The lake is located within Rocky Mountain National Park, generally in La Poudre Pass, just south of the Continental Divide. The lake lies just southeast of La Poudre Pass Creek. It can be reached on foot via ...
The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows. The Rockies are snow-covered only in the winter; most snow melts by mid-August with the exception of a few small glaciers.
Lake Agnes is an alpine lake in the Colorado State Forest State Park occurring within the Never Summer Mountain Range. The lake lies within glacial tarn surrounded by a cirque consisting of Nokhu Crags, Static Peak, Mount Richthofen, Mount Mahler, and Braddock Peak. It is the deepest lake in the Colorado State Forest State Park. Lake Agnes is ...
Dream Lake is a high alpine lake located in Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado, located east of the continental divide. [1] The lake is at the base of Hallett Peak and access is via the Bear Lake trail head. It is at the heart of the park, and at Region 4 of the park's geographical zones.
Pacific Tarn is a small lake located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in the United States.It is notable for its 13,420 foot (4,090 m) elevation, [1] making it the highest lake in the United States whose name is recognized by the United States Board on Geographic Names, surpassing other lakes such as Hawaii's Lake Waiau on Mauna Kea, and California's Tulainyo Lake near Mount Whitney.
Lake San Cristobal is a lake in the U.S. state of Colorado.Located in the San Juan Mountains at an elevation of 9,003 feet (2,744 m), the freshwater lake is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) long, up to 89 feet (27 m) deep, has a surface area of 0.52 square miles (1.3 km 2), and holds about 11,000 acre-feet (14,000,000 m 3) of water. [2]