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The beauty of Crystal Lake attracts many people from all around. Paradise Basin is a beautiful place any time of year. Lakes? Sure, Alta Reservoir Number 1 is around here. This lake is so wonderful. You can run the rapids of Mineral Creek - South next to Crystal Lake, and camping at Molas Lake Park is always a nice experience. It is very dried up here at Crystal Lake typically; most of the rain falls throughout July, and June is when it's the driest.
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the Greyhound Pack Trail, and a good close by hotel is Ice House Lodge. If you fancy the outdoors, you'll like Crystal Lake. There are great places to discover along the Highline Trail, and the peak of Lookout Peak can be spotted
from Crystal Lake. So many entertaining things to do here at Crystal Lake, too good to be true. The slopes of Silverton are so inviting nobody can resist.
A wonderful location next to Crystal Lake is Chapman Gulch, and at Bridal
Veil Dam in the vicinity of Crystal Lake there are some interesting things to see. Summer at Crystal Lake arrives with high temperatures in the 70's. When the night sets in temperatures fall down into the 40's. All through the winter
highs are regularly in the 30's, and night lows at Crystal Lake all through the winter generally plunge into the 0's.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 37.84806
Longitude: -107.7808
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Telluride, Colorado, 6 miles away
3530 vertical feet |
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Silverton, Colorado, 8 miles away
3000 vertical feet |
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Mineral Creek - South, -blank- CountyCounty, 6 miles away
Class V+ - 0.5 miles long (Above South Mineral Camp Ground) |
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Lime Creek, -blank- CountyCounty, 8 miles away
Class V+ - 3 miles long (1st Gorge) |
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Animas River, San Juan/ La Plata CountyCounty, 11 miles away
Class IV-V - 24.2 miles long (Silverton to Tacoma) |
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