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Twin Lakes

Twin Lakes is a pair of glacier-carved alpine lakes about 15 miles south of historic . They are downstream along the , whose headwaters are by Leadville.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 171 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Lake County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Dayton” and “Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado”
  • Postal code: 81251

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vicksburg.

Hamlet
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a town and mining camp in , high in Clear Creek Canyon. It is now effectively a ghost town, although some of the buildings may be seasonally occupied by their owners. is situated 6 miles south of Twin Lakes.

Twin Lakes

Latitude
39.08277° or 39° 4′ 58″ north
Longitude
-106.38197° or 106° 22′ 55″ west
Population
171
Elevation
9,236 feet (2,815 metres)
Open location code
85FM3JM9+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151958447
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5442284
Wiki­data ID
Q7858203
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Twin Lakes” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Twin Lakes”
  • Chechen: “Твин-Лейкс (Лейк гуо, Колорадо)”
  • Chechen: “Твин-Лейкс”
  • Chinese: “雙湖 (科羅拉多州萊克縣)”
  • Chinese: “雙湖”
  • French: “Twin Lakes”
  • German: “Twin Lakes”
  • Irish: “Twin Lakes”
  • Italian: “Twin Lakes”
  • Japanese: “ツインレークス”
  • Ladin: “Twin Lakes”
  • Marathi: “ट्विन लेक्स (कॉलोराडो)”
  • Marathi: “ट्विन लेक्स”
  • Navajo: “Beʼekʼid Naakií”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Twin Lakes”
  • Persian: “تویین لیکس، شهرستان لیک، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “تویین لیکس”
  • Polish: “Twin Lakes”
  • Serbian: “Твин Лејкс (округ Лејк, Колорадо)”
  • Serbian: “Твин Лејкс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Twin Lakes”
  • Slovenian: “Twin Lakes”
  • Spanish: “Twin Lakes (condado de Lake, Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Twin Lakes”
  • Tatar: “Твин-Лейкс (Лейк округы, Колорадо)”
  • Tatar: “Твин-Лейкс”
  • Ukrainian: “Твін-Лейкс”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Twin Lakes”. Photo: Toshihiro Matsui, CC BY-SA 3.0.