Middle Blue Lake

Middle Blue Lake is in Ouray, Colorado. Middle Blue Lake is situated nearby to the peak Mount Sneffels, as well as near Dallas Peak.

Places of Interest Nearby

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 Camp Bird.

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.

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 5 miles southeast of Middle Blue Lake.

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 5 miles south of Middle Blue Lake.

Middle Blue Lake

Type: Body of water
Location: Ouray, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.00133° or 38° 0′ 5″ north

Longitude

-107.80853° or 107° 48′ 31″ west

Open location code

85CJ252R+GH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 45878474

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

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