High Altitude Illness
High Altitude Illness How to Avoid It, Recognize It, and Treat It Every year millions of people go to the mountains for hiking, skiing, mountain climbing, and other activities. If [...]
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High Altitude Illness How to Avoid It, Recognize It, and Treat It Every year millions of people go to the mountains for hiking, skiing, mountain climbing, and other activities. If [...]
Useful Information
Useful Information Help Keep Bears Wild Get in the habit of being bear-responsible. It’s like recycling — at first it’s a little extra effort, but soon it becomes a better [...]
Hunting
Hunting Hunting in the San Juans started during the 19th century when the mountain men who weren’t prospecting for precious metals learned of another commodity that these mountains had to [...]
Night Skies
Night Skies Because of its remote location, Lake City is well suited for great stargazing opportunities. On a clear night, one can marvel at the moon, planets, constellations, and other [...]
Mountain Biking
Mountain Biking The area offers a tremendous range of mountain biking experiences. The choices include easy-going, in-town trails the whole family can enjoy, peaceful intermediate trails and jeep roads with [...]
In-Town Walking Trails
In-Town Walking Trails River Access Trail System The River Access Trail System is only one part of a larger trail system that will continue to Lake San Cristobal and other [...]
Fourteeners and Thirteeners
Fourteeners and Thirteeners Fourteeners and Thirteeners close to Lake City accessed either off Hinsdale County Road 30 (Lake Fork to Cinnamon Pass) or Hinsdale County Road 20 (Henson Creek to [...]
Fishing
Fishing Lake City Fishing draws anglers back to its streams and lakes year after year. Whether your passion is making a long-distance cast with a spinner in a mountain lake, [...]
Hiking Trails
Hiking Trails One of the benefits of being in the most remote county in the lower 48 with 96 percent public lands is that it takes only a few miles [...]
Alpine Loop: Two-Wheel-Drive Portion
Alpine Loop: Two-Wheel-Drive Portion Portions of the Alpine Loop Accessible by Two-wheel Drive Vehicles Lake City to Whitmore Falls County Road 20 A part of the Alpine Loop, County Road 20 [...]
