Blue Lakes
Blue Lakes is in Ouray, Colorado and has an elevation of 11,594 feet. Blue Lakes is situated nearby to the locality San Miguel.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Sneffels and Dallas Peak.
Mount Sneffels
Peak
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,153-foot fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 6.7 miles west by south of the City of Ouray in Ouray County, Colorado, United States.
Dallas Peak
Peak
Dallas Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,815-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.3 miles north by west of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray and San Miguel counties.
Gilpin Peak
Peak
Photo: Greg Willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilpin Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,700-foot thirteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 3.5 miles north-northeast of the Town of Telluride, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Ouray County and San Miguel County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telluride and Pandora.
Telluride
Photo: John Fowler, CC BY 2.0.
Telluride is in the southern Rocky Mountains approximately 100 miles from Four Corners, the intersection of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Telluride is home to the Telluride Ski Resort, and home of an independent film festival.
Pandora
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Pandora is an unincorporated community located 1.5 miles east of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Pandora was founded in the 1880s as a mill town, serving as the site for mills of the Smuggler-Union, Tomboy, and Sheridan mines. Pandora is situated 4½ miles south of Blue Lakes.
Camp Bird
Hamlet
Camp Bird is a tiny unincorporated community in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lies between the present towns of Ouray and Telluride. Camp Bird is west of Thistledown and reached by CO Road 361. Camp Bird is situated 4½ miles southeast of Blue Lakes.
Blue Lakes
- Type: Body of water
- Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.9981° or 37° 59′ 53″ northLongitude
-107.80851° or 107° 48′ 31″ westElevation
11,594 feet (3,534 metres)Open location code
859JX5XR+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 45859588OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterGeoNames ID
5414363
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