Echo Lake Park

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caption =Echo Lake from above
nearest_city= Idaho Springs, Colorado
built =1921
architect= Benedict, Jules Jacques Benoit
architecture= Other
added = February 24, 1995
governing_body = Local
mpsub=Denver Mountain Parks MPS
refnum=95000109 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2006-03-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Evans Scenic Byway about Convert|60|mi|km|0|abbr=on west of Denver, Colorado. The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbecue grills on one end of the lake, while an Arapaho National Forest campground is found at the other. Access to backpacking trails, including the Chicago Lakes trail and Lincoln Lakes trail, can be found adjacent to the lake. The park is part of the Denver Mountain Parks system.

Echo Lake

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lake_name = Echo Lake
image_lake = Echo_9.jpg
caption_lake = After Year's First Snowfall
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location = Colorado
type = oligotrophic
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elevation = Convert|10600|ft|m|-1|abbr=on
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Echo Lake is a shallow, oligotrophic lake situated at Convert|10600|ft|m|-1|abbr=on above sea level near Mount Evans in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It formed during the latest period of glaciation roughly 10,000 years ago. As glaciers retreated in the Chicago Creek valley, lateral moraines formed a natural dam to drainage, forming the lake. The ecosystem around the lake is dominated by Engleman Spruce and Sub-Alpine Fir, with some Limber Pine on exposed sites.

ee also

*Summit Lake Park

References

External links

* [http://www.denvergov.org/Mountain_Parks/template21718.asp Denver Mountain Parks - Echo Lake]
*gnis|181952|Echo Lake Park
*gnis|181954|Echo Lake