Hancock Lake, Sawatch Range, Chaffee County, Colorado     Custom Search User input for Hancock Lake, Sawatch Range, Chaffee County, Colorado: Be the first to submit input for Hancock Lake. Help improve this web site with your great input. Submit Input: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:      Review Guidelines       Hancock Lake is a great lake in an area with lots of outdoors fun all around. Summertime at Hancock Lake arrives with high temperatures in the 70's, and through the night it cools down to the 30's. The winter comes with highs in the 20's; all through the dark hours in the winter at Hancock Lake temperatures fall to the-20's. You'll truly wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the exciting stuff in the Sawatch Range. If you need a location to stay Buena Vista       Super 8 Motel is a great choice, and a striking lake like Upper Hancock Lake is a great site to pop by. That right there is a lot of entertaining things already but it goes on, the Sawatch Range has it all. You might want to pay a visit to Chalk Creek Pass since you're here at Hancock Lake, and if the weather is pretty, you obtain a great view of Brittle Silver Mountain from Hancock Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Very charming scenery and good skiing                  is what you get at Monarch; a great location for whitewater paddling is Arkansas River. Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park is a tremendous local destination here at Hancock Lake. You'll need more than a day to look at everything Hancock Lake has to offer, you can camp at Middle Quartz Campground. So many enjoyable things in close proximity to Hancock Lake, completely incredible. Best Western Vista Inn is a magnificent place to get some rest, and do take a hike on the Coyote Park Trail. The Sawatch Range scenery is always beautiful. Yep, outdoors exciting things to do are beyond doubt abundant here at Hancock Lake. North Fork Dam is an interesting thing to check out. A fine location like Brittle Silver Basin here at Hancock Lake is too brilliant to miss, and Hancock Lake is right by the Pitkin Stock Driveway. This lake is so wonderful. You can run the rapids of Arkansas River near Hancock Lake, and the Fooses Creek Trail offers hiking at its best. Hancock Lake gets very little precipitation; of all the months in a year August is the one with the most rain while June is mostly the driest month. Do explore Island Lake near Hancock Lake, it's a gorgeous lake. There's so much to do here at Hancock Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Garfield Campground is a good spot for that.   Buena Vista Super 8 Motel, Buena Vista 20 miles away This Super 8 is without a doubt, one of the best properties in the chain. Pride property in addition to recipient of the National Hospitality Award. 27 inch flat screen TVs with HBO, refrigerators, ha... Best Western Vista Inn, Buena Vista 20 miles away Come to where the mountains meet the sky! Discover the Best Western Vista Inn, Buena Vista's newest and largest inn and the perfect base camp for all the wonderful outdoor activities the area has to... Current weather conditions at Hancock Lake, Sawatch Range, Chaffee County, Colorado Local climate location: TAYLOR PARK 6 miles away   Coordinates: Latitude: 38.61444 Longitude: -106.3528 Sawatch Range Lakes Complete list of all the lakes in the Sawatch Range. Sawatch Range Outdoors Info Complete outdoors info for the Sawatch Range. Colorado Lakes Complete list of all lakes in Colorado Chaffee County Lakes Complete list of all lakes in Chaffee County Books about Hancock Lake List of books available on Amazon.com about Hancock Lake, Sawatch Range, Chaffee County, Colorado. 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Colorado Outdoors Index This is a very comprehensive index of outdoors activities in the great state of Colorado.     These outdoors activities are available near Hancock Lake.   Hotels Near Hancock Lake: Buena Vista Super 8 Motel, Buena Vista, 20 miles away Best Western Vista Inn, Buena Vista, 20 miles away Holiday Inn Express Salida, Co, Salida, 24 miles away Aspen Leaf Lodge, Salida, 24 miles away Salida Travelodge, Salida, 24 miles away   Camp Grounds Near Hancock Lake: Middle Quartz Campground, Gunnison County, 5 miles away Garfield Campground, Chaffee County, 5 miles away Monarch Park Campground, Chaffee County, 6 miles away Snowblind Campground, Gunnison County, 7 miles away   Ski Areas Near Hancock Lake: Monarch, Colorado, 6 miles away       1171 vertical feet   Whitewater Near Hancock Lake: Arkansas River, Chaffee CountyCounty, 19 miles away       Class III - 13 miles long (Fork Fisherman's Bridge access to Stone Bridge access) Arkansas River, Chaffe CountyCounty, 20 miles away       Class III - 6 miles long (East Buena Vista to Fisherman's Bridge)   National Parks Near Hancock Lake: Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Gunnison - CO, 20 miles away Curecanti National Recreation Area, Gunnison - CO, 20 miles away Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Mosca - CO, 69 miles away   Trails Near Hancock Lake: Fooses Creek Trail, Chaffee County, 8 miles away Pitkin Stock Driveway, Gunnison County, 10 miles away Coyote Park Trail, Gunnison County, 11 miles away   Lakes Near Hancock Lake: Upper Hancock Lake, Chaffee CountyCounty, 0 miles away Island Lake, Chaffee CountyCounty, 1 miles away