Colorado Lakes: 37 Vacation Lakes in Colorado

Featured Colorado Lake

Lake Name	Lake Summary
Lake Purgatory	Also known as: Columbine Lake, Purgatory Lake Set in the middle of a winter wonderland, Lake Purgatory is a private alpine lake found in beautiful southwestern Colorado. Snowshoeing, snowcat skiing, snowboarding, snow biking and cross country skiing are all within view of Lake Purgatory - but the fun doesn't stop there. When spring arrives ski trails turn to hiking trails and meadows bloom with wildflowers ready to welcome summer canoers, kayakers and fishermen to the shores of Purgatory Lake. Surrounded by over two million acres of the San Juan National Forest, a sense of the old west remains where people of the Ute Nation once resided. Purgatory Lake and Purgatory Mountain are said to be named after a 1776 party of Spanish explorers who became lost among the Rockies' slopes and doomed to purgatory having never being found. Thirty miles north of Lake Purgatory, the Silverton area legally opened its land to miners in the 1870s and remains a popular destination today. In 1965, a major ski resort opened on Purgatory Mountain and ... (read more about Lake Purgatory, Colorado)

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Lake Purgatory

Also known as: Columbine Lake, Purgatory Lake
Set in the middle of a winter wonderland, Lake Purgatory is a private alpine lake found in beautiful southwestern Colorado. Snowshoeing, snowcat skiing, snowboarding, snow biking and cross country skiing are all within view of Lake Purgatory - but the fun doesn't stop there. When spring arrives ski trails turn to hiking trails and meadows bloom with wildflowers ready to welcome summer canoers, kayakers and fishermen to the shores of Purgatory Lake. Surrounded by over two million acres of the San Juan National Forest, a sense of the old west remains where people of the Ute Nation once resided. Purgatory Lake and Purgatory Mountain are said to be named after a 1776 party of Spanish explorers who became lost among the Rockies' slopes and doomed to purgatory having never being found. Thirty miles north of Lake Purgatory, the Silverton area legally opened its land to miners in the 1870s and remains a popular destination today. In 1965, a major ski resort opened on Purgatory Mountain and ... (read more about Lake Purgatory, Colorado)