Soldier Canyon Dam

Soldier Canyon Dam is a dam in Larimer, Colorado and has an elevation of 5,433 feet. Soldier Canyon Dam is situated nearby to Lory State Park, as well as near the hamlet Bellvue.

Type: Dam
Description: dam in Larimer County, Colorado, United States of America
Also known as: “Horsetooth - Soldier Canyon Dam”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lory State Park and Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium.

Lory State Park

Park

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Lory State Park, is a state park located west of the city of Fort Collins, Colorado and is west of Horsetooth Reservoir and north of Horsetooth Mountain Park. Lory State Park is situated 2 miles southwest of Soldier Canyon Dam.

Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium

Historic site

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Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium was an outdoor college football stadium in the western United States, located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was the home field of the Colorado State Rams of the Pac-12 Conference from 1968 through 2016; the team moved in 2017 to the new on-campus Colorado State Stadium. Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium is situated 2 miles southeast of Soldier Canyon Dam.

Poudre High School

School

Poudre High School is a public senior high school in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Poudre School District. The school serves approximately 1,900 students with the most northwestern part of Fort Collins and outlying communities as its boundary. Poudre High School is situated 2 miles east of Soldier Canyon Dam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bellvue and Laporte.

Bellvue

Hamlet

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Bellvue is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Larimer County, Colorado. It is a small agricultural community located in Pleasant Valley, a narrow valley just northwest of Fort Collins near the mouth of the Poudre Canyon between the Dakota Hogback ridge and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Bellvue is situated 2½ miles north of Soldier Canyon Dam.

Laporte

Village

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Laporte is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place located in and governed by Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Laporte is situated 3 miles northeast of Soldier Canyon Dam.

Fort Collins

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Fort Collins is a city of about 170,000 in north central region of the western U.S. state of Colorado. The seat of Larimer County, the city lies 59 miles north of Denver on the Cache La Poudre River at the eastern edge of the Front Range foothills.

Soldier Canyon Dam

Location: Larimer, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.58993° or 40° 35′ 24″ north

Longitude

-105.16163° or 105° 9′ 42″ west

Elevation

5,433 feet (1,656 metres)

Open location code

85GPHRQQ+X8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 466030984

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=dam

GeoNames ID

5582140

Wikidata ID

Q48999716

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In Other Languages

“Soldier Canyon Dam” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Soldier Canyon Dam”

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