Summit Lake Park | |
 Summit Lake Park | |
| Location | Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA |
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| Nearest city | Idaho Springs, CO |
| Coordinates | 39°35′55″N 105°38′39″W / 39.59861°N 105.64417°W |
| Built | 1924 |
| Architect | Benedict, Jules Jacques Benoit; CCC |
| MPS | Denver Mountain Parks MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 95000110 [1] |
| Designated | April 1965 |
| CSRHP No. | 5CC.645 |
| Added to NRHP | February 24, 1995 |
Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Evans Scenic Byway about 64 miles (100 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres (0.65 km²) in size and contains alpine tundra. Land to the east of the lake is in a state of permafrost which helps to prevent drainage of the area.[2] During the summer, the park is filled with wildflowers, some of which have not been found anywhere else outside of the Arctic Circle.[3] The park is named after Summit Lake, the headwaters of Bear Creek.
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Summit Lake SP is one of the newer parks in Indiana, located just north of Newcastle, Indiana in Henry county. Summit Lake is about 3000 acres in size with an 800 acre lake in the middle. The lake is in a C-shape and most of the recreation is located on the inside of the C. We have a family beach; we’re very much devoted to the lake use here. We have a lot of boating, pleasure boating, fishing. We have a nice family campground, two picnic areas and we have a boat rental. Summit Lake was created from farmland. It was purchased back in the early 1970’s to begin with and took about 10-15 years. It was created from grazed pasture land or cultivated farmland. So when the state took over from the county agency about 25 years ago, they did a lot of work on reforestation. They were planting 60,000 trees a year and then we got a grant from US Fish and Wildlife and we were able to start planting native prairie grasses which came from this area. For a lot of people, and this is one of the hotspots for ice fishing. It’s known all over the Midwest. It’s been written up in a number of magazines: "Outdoor Life", "Field and Stream," for ice fishing here. Also if we get a good snow fall, our trails are wide enough that cross country skiers love to use them. From those of us who work in the great outdoors, we enjoy this every day, but those who work in an office building, work in a school building and such, we’d like to invite you to come out and experience the things we do on a daily basis. We see the birds, wild animals, butterflies and such. It’s just a lovely place to be and we’d love to have you come and join us.
Summit Lake
Summit Lake is a tarn which sits at 12,836 feet (3,912 m) elevation in a glacial cirque on the north face of Mount Blue Sky and the east face of Mount Spalding. To the north, there is a col (12,855 feet/3918 m elevation) looking down into the chain of two cirques holding the Chicago Lakes at the headwaters of Chicago Creek.[4] By one count that includes several unnamed lakes, Summit Lake is the 13th highest lake in the United States.[5] In 1915, the USGS reported that Summit Lake was the highest lake in Colorado, at 12,740 feet.[6] Later secondary sources occasionally report it as the highest lake in the United States.[7]
The land was acquired by Denver in 1924 and incorporated into the Denver Mountain Parks system.[3] It was declared a National Natural Landmark in April, 1965.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
- ^ "Driving and Watching for Alpine Wildlife - On Mount Blue Sky". June 14, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
- ^ a b The City and County of Denver. "Denver Mountain Parks - Summit Lake Park". Retrieved October 30, 2011.
- ^ Summit Lake on The National Map Viewer Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine from the USGS.
- ^ Carl Drews, The Highest Lake in the United States of America, 2004.
- ^ R. B. Marshall, Appendix B, Secondary Elevations, Results of Spirit Leveling in Colorado, 1896 to 1914, Inclusive, Bulletin 565, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, 1915; page 186.
- ^ Michael Martin and Leonard Gelber, Colorado,Dictionary of American History, Philosophical Library, 1978; page 132.
- ^ "National Natural Landmark summary". National Park Service. February 5, 2004. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
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