Echo Lake Park
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| Echo Lake Park | |
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| (U.S. National Register of Historic Places) | |
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| Nearest city: | Idaho Springs, Colorado |
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| Built/Founded: | 1921 |
| Architect: | Benedict, Jules Jacques Benoit |
| Architectural style(s): | Other |
| Added to NRHP: | February 24, 1995 |
| Reference #: | 95000109 [1] |
| MPS: | Denver Mountain Parks MPS |
| Governing body: | Local |
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 barbecue 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.
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[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.
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- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2006-03-15).
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