Echo Lake Park

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Echo Lake Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Echo Lake from above
Nearest city:	Idaho Springs, Colorado
Built/Founded:	1921
Architect:	Benedict, Jules Jacques Benoit
Architectural style(s):	Other
Added to NRHP:	February 24, 1995
NRHP 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 mi (97 km) 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. The park is part of the Denver Mountain Parks system.

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[edit] Echo Lake

Echo Lake
After Year's First Snowfall
Location	Colorado
Coordinates	39°39′30″N, 105°36′12″W
Lake type	oligotrophic
Basin countries	United States
Surface elevation	10,600 ft (3,230 m)

Echo Lake is a shallow, oligotrophic lake situated at 10,600 ft (3,230 m) 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.