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Lake City Parade - part 6 of Independence Day trip 2015
We enjoyed the parade and left Lake City soon after people cleared Main Street. We had a good time there but we had some more plans to see places this day. We followed highway 149, which runs up to the summits and down to the valleys. There are a couple of pearls the traveler can find hidden just out of the main road. One of these treasures is Lake San Cristobal, the second largest natural lake in the state of Colorado.
Some info from the WiKi:
Located in the San Juan
Mountains at an elevation of 9,003 feet (2,744 m), the freshwater lake
is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) long, up to 89 feet (27 m) deep, and holds about
11,000 acre feet (14,000,000 m3) of water. The town of Lake City, a few
miles to the north, is named after Lake San Cristobal. The name San
Cristóbal means Saint Christopher in the Spanish language.
We made a detour and drove around this amazing lake and continued our trip. Just stopped for a second a couple thousand feet above the lake where the viewpoint offered an astonishing view to the Lake San Cristobal from the bird's eye. We were even more impressed, how big and nice this lake was.
Later we made a few more stops - to see two nice waterfalls - North and South
Clear Creek Falls where we enjoyed seeing how tons of water fell down the
stream. It looks really impressive because the Clear Creek in
looks small at this place - tiny small creek winging between hills.
A few
miles later we stopped to have some snacks next to another lake. That was a perfect spot for short recess - we were surrounded by bright green, blue, purple, white colors... And everything looked unbelievable, vivid and bright... We felt like at this moment we traveled to the fairy tale...
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Pictures were taken on July 04, 2015.
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