Trappers Lake
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Trappers Lake is a lake in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area, which is in the White River National Forest in Colorado, USA. The lake is the source of the North Fork of the White River. It is located east of the town of Meeker and west of the town of Yampa. There is a large camping area and lodge near the lake. The forest surrounding the lake was heavily burnt by wildfire in 2002.
The lake is roughly a mile and a half (2.4 km) long and half a mile (.8km) wide. It is surrounded by the Flat Tops Mountains, the most striking of which is the large semicircular Chinese Wall which has a height of 1,650 ft (503m).
The area around the lake was put largely off limits to development in 1920, due to the recommendation of Arthur Carhart, hired by the Forest Service to make a survey for a road around the lake. It was the first such Forest Service property to be set aside in this manner. Because of this, some considered it the birthplace of the U.S. Wilderness Area system.
