Summit Lake Park
Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 64 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres in size and contains alpine tundra.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Evans and Meyer–Womble Observatory.
Mount Evans
Peak
Photo: Lookinhere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,266.1-foot fourteener is located 13.4 miles southwest by south of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado…
Meyer–Womble Observatory
Building
Meyer–Womble Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Denver. It is located near the summit of Mount Blue Sky in the Arapaho National Forest approximately 60 kilometers west of Denver, Colorado.
Crest House
Building
Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.
The Mount Evans Crest House is a building, now in ruins, located at the summit of Mount Blue Sky in Colorado. It is notable for both its significant architectural design and its unusual location.
Summit Lake Park
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake in the United States of America
- Categories: lake and historic district
- Location: Clear Creek, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.59896° or 39° 35′ 56″ northLongitude
-105.64478° or 105° 38′ 41″ westElevation
12,835 feet (3,912 metres)Open location code
85FPH9X4+H3OpenStreetMap ID
way 81339969OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Venetian—“Summit Lake Park” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سوميت پارك”
- French: “Summit Lake Park”
- German: “Summit Lake”
- Italian: “Summit Lake Park”
- Portuguese: “Summit Lake Park”
- Spanish: “Summit Lake Park”
- Venetian: “Summit Lake Park”
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