Chicago Forks Picnic Ground

Chicago Forks Picnic Ground is a picnic site in Clear Creek, Colorado. Chicago Forks Picnic Ground is situated nearby to Echo Lake Park, as well as near the peak Devils Nose.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Echo Lake Park.

Echo Lake Park

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Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 33.5 mi west of Denver, Colorado. The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbecue grills on one end of the lake, and the 1926 Echo Lake Lodge and an Arapaho National Forest campground are found at the other. Echo Lake Park is situated 2 miles south of Chicago Forks Picnic Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Georgetown and Downieville-Lawson-Dumont.

Georgetown

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Georgetown is the territorial charter municipality that is the county seat of Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 1,118 at the 2020 United States census.

Downieville-Lawson-Dumont

Locality

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Downieville-Lawson-Dumont is a census-designated place comprising the unincorporated communities of Downieville, Lawson, and Dumont located in, and governed by, Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. Downieville-Lawson-Dumont is situated 6 miles north of Chicago Forks Picnic Ground.

Dumont

Hamlet

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Dumont is a small unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office situated along Clear Creek in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The Dumont Post Office has the ZIP Code 80436. Dumont is a part of the Downieville-Lawson-Dumont census-designated place. Dumont is situated 6 miles north of Chicago Forks Picnic Ground.

Chicago Forks Picnic Ground

Type: Picnic site
Category: tourism
Location: Clear Creek, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.68267° or 39° 40′ 58″ north

Longitude

-105.61307° or 105° 36′ 47″ west

Open location code

85FPM9MP+3Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4995830822

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=picnic_site

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