Echo Lake Park

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Echo Lake After Year's First Snowfall

Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Evans Scenic Byway about 60 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbeque grills on one end of the lake, while an Arapaho National Forest campground is found at the other. Access to backpacking trails, including the Chicago Lakes trail and Lincoln Lakes trail, can be found adjacent to the lake.

[edit] Echo Lake

Echo Lake is a shallow, oligotrophic lake situated at 10,600 feet above sea level near Mount Evans in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It formed during the latest period of glaciation roughly 10,000 years ago. As glaciers retreated in the Chicago Creek valley, lateral moraines formed a natural dam to drainage, forming the lake. The ecosystem around the lake is dominated by Engleman Spruce and Sub-Alpine Fir, with some Limber Pine on exposed sites.