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Hanging Lake is a nice lake to visit. There's glorious hiking along the High Trail; since you might be in a lake visiting mood you can always visit nearby Hopkins Reservoir. This lake is so wonderful. If you need a location to stay Hotel Colorado is a good choice; why not a little side spree to Cinnamon Creek. Get yourself into a kayak and hit Grizzly Creek. There's so much to do here at Hanging Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Glenwood Canyon
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| | Resort is a nice spot for that. High temperatures at Hanging Lake during the summer months are in the 80's. During the dark hours of summer temperatures plunge down into the 50's. High temperatures during the wintertime are normally in the 30's, and overnight lows in the 0's for Hanging Lake. Around Hanging Lake you don’t get a lot of rainfall; October is when you get the most rain here, and the driest of the months is February. This lake is so wonderful. | |
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Good hiking is available along the Blue Creek Trail; you'll never forgive yourself if you don’t go skiing at Sunlight Mountain if you're here. What a spot this is for outdoors folks. Dry warm beds await you at The Hotel Denver, and
if you're here, you might as well check out Devils Hole Canyon. This is a magnificent neighborhood for people who like lakes. Green Lake is a lake around here. You'll need more than a day to look at everything Hanging Lake has to
offer, you can camp at Coffee Pot Spring Campground. If you come at the right time of year, Roaring Fork offers some delightful whitewater, and there's some exciting stuff to observe at Shoshone Dam in the vicinity of Hanging Lake.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 39.60167 Longitude: -107.1914
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Grizzly Creek, Garfield CountyCounty, 5 miles away Class IV-V - 1 miles long (1 mile up trail to Grizzly Creek Rest Area) |
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Roaring Fork, Pitkin/Garfield CountyCounty, 9 miles away Class II+(III) - 6.2 miles long (Black Bridge to Veltus Park) |
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Sweetwater Creek, Eagle CountyCounty, 11 miles away Class III-IV - 4.5 miles long (Pine Valley Ranch to Anderson Camp) |
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Sunlight Mountain
 | 11 miles away 3 PHOTOS Parker Hille 03-26-Powder... Chris Lyons 03-26-Powder... Danny Stewart 03-26-Powder... |
Colorado River
 | 11 miles away I had a blast on the river. The scenery was beautiful. The rapids were awesome and some would come over my head. It was a huge adreneline rush.... |
Anderson Camps LTD
 | 12 miles away First year was great, I came back to be with my friends and the people made cam enjoyable but there was no improvement in the facilities.... |
Adams Lake
 | 16 miles away 1 PHOTO located at the foot of Blair Mountain Adams Lake is well worth the trip. Definatly a 4 wheel drive Jeep Trail but only a few miles from Elk lakes, Jet lake, Shadow Lake, Blair lakes , Crater Lake, Deep lake and bison lake. Lots of Cut throat trout, rainbows and browns. Most deffinatly more than a one day trip. Always plan for all kinds of weather, and definitely tent camping only.... |
Elk Lakes
 | 17 miles away 1 PHOTO |
Jet Lake
 | 18 miles away 3 PHOTOS Jet lake is also located in the Flat Tops wilderness area so no vehicles allowed but is only about a 15 to 20 minute hike to the lake (an easy pretty flat hike) then about another 15 minute hike into shadow lake , about 15 mor into blair lake and about 15 more into crater lake. Elk lakes are located about 5 minutes from the wilderness area only 1/2 mile to the parking for jet lakes.... some colorado wild flowers... |
Blair Lake
 | 18 miles away 1 PHOTO |
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