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This is a list of the largest reservoirs in the state of Colorado. All thirty-nine reservoirs that contain greater than 40,000 acre-feet (49 million cubic meters ) are included in the list. Most of the larger reservoirs in the state are owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and, to a lesser extent, the Corps of Engineers .
San Francisco, July 1864, arrived at Colorado River Aug. 1864 Philadelphia Silver & Copper Mining Co., Pacific & Colorado Steam Navigation Co., Arizona Navigation Co., George A. Johnson & Company, Colorado Steam Navigation Company unknown 97' 22' 12" unknown - 120 tons Wrecked Sept. 1874, at Port Isabel Retta: stern 1900 Yuma unknown Yuma, 1900
Interest in the area as a summer retreat for urban dwellers in Fort Collins and other Front Range communities grew rapidly, and in 1923, the name "Red Feather" made its first appearance when the Red Feather Mountain Lakes Association was formed with the objective of developing recreational homes (cabins) on 4,320 acres (6.75 sq mi; 17.5 km 2).
The reservoir it creates, Lake Lowell, has a normal surface area of 16 square miles (41 km 2), and a maximum capacity of 169,000 acre-feet (208,000,000 m 3). [2] Its surface elevation is approximately 2,520 feet (770 m) above sea level. The Boise Project was among the first undertaken by the Reclamation Service after its formation in 1902.
Steamboat Lake State Park is a Colorado state park located in Routt County 27 miles (43 km) north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and near the community of Hahns Peak Village. The 2,820-acre (1,140 ha) park land west of Hahns Peak was acquired in 1966. [2] It and the 1,101 acres (446 ha) reservoir was opened to the public in 1972.
Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. [6] It is the most populous city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010.
Mount Elbert, the highest peak in Colorado, rises directly west of the CDP to its 14,433-foot (4,399 m) summit, just 6 miles (10 km) west of the center of the CDP. The Twin Lakes CDP has an area of 1,063 acres (4.302 km 2 ), including 11 acres (0.044 km 2 ) of water, [ 2 ] (much less than the surface area of the Twin Lakes themselves).
Lake Powell is a water storage facility for the Upper Basin states of the Colorado River Compact (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico). The Compact specifies that the Upper Basin states are to provide a minimum annual flow of 7,500,000 acre-feet (9.3 km 3 ) to the Lower Basin states (Arizona, Nevada, and California).