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The Taylor Park Reservoir is a body of water created by the 1937 Taylor Park Dam, which dams the Taylor River of Colorado, United States. The dam and reservoir, located about 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Gunnison , are part of the Uncompahgre Project in Colorado.
The Taylor River rises between Star Peak and Crystal Peak in Colorado's Elk Mountains in the northeast part of Gunnison County, near the Continental Divide. [2] Flowing southeast, the river goes through Taylor Park Reservoir, created by the Taylor Park Dam. From there it flows southwest.
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
USGS 7.5' topographic map Taylor Park Reservoir, Colorado [3] Park Cone, elevation 12,106 ft (3,690 m), is a summit in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Smith Reservoir (Costilla County, Colorado) ... Taylor Park Reservoir; Terrace Reservoir; Twin Lakes Dam; Twin Lakes ...
An enlargeable map of the State of Colorado. This is an alphabetical list of some notable lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. State of Colorado . Most of the larger lakes in Colorado are either reservoirs or dam-enhanced natural lakes.
The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [ citation needed ] and hundreds more on tributaries .
Black Canyon of the Gunnison, June 2016. The Gunnison River is formed by the confluence of the Taylor and East rivers at Almont in eastern Gunnison County, Colorado.Just past the town of Gunnison, the river begins to swell into the expanse of Blue Mesa Reservoir, a 36-mile-long (58 km) reservoir formed by Blue Mesa Dam, where it receives the Lake Fork of the Gunnison.