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

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

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″ north

Longitude

-107.80851° or 107° 48′ 31″ west

Elevation

11,594 feet (3,534 metres)

Open location code

859JX5XR+6H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 45859588

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

GeoNames ID

5414363

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