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This is a list of the state parks in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state park system to accommodate both outdoor recreation and tourism. There are currently forty-two parks open to the public, and there are others in development. [1] Colorado State Parks host over eleven million visitors each year.
The state purchased the property in 1962 and opened Colorado's first state park here later that same year. [2] It is named after Harold Lathrop, the first director of state parks. [ 3 ] The park features two lakes, Martin Lake and Horseshoe Lake, that offer fishing for tiger muskie (46-inch, 25-pound examples have been caught here), rainbow ...
Boyd Lake State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Colorado, [3] located north of Loveland, Colorado. It became a state recreation area under the Colorado Division of Game, Fish, and Parks in 1965. [4] The park sometimes holds events for the public including fishing derbies and clinics, education programs, and volunteer projects.
State parks and other state sites within the U.S. state of Colorado. Pages in category "State parks of Colorado" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
The U.S. State of Colorado has designated 96 natural areas of the state for special protection, as of 2023. [1] [2] The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora, fauna, ecological, geological, and paleontologic features.
Steamboat Lake State Park is a Colorado state park located in Routt County 27 miles (43 km) north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and near the community of Hahns Peak Village. The 2,820-acre (1,140 ha) park land west of Hahns Peak was acquired in 1966. [2] It and the 1,101 acres (446 ha) reservoir was opened to the public in 1972.
Castlewood Canyon State Park is a Colorado state park near Franktown, Colorado. The park retains a unique part of Colorado's history, the remains of Castlewood Canyon Dam. Visitors can still see the remnants and damage from that dam which burst in 1933. The event sent a 15-foot (5 m) wave of water all the way to downtown Denver resulting in a ...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Staunton State Park is a Colorado state park in Park and Jefferson counties, located 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Conifer , Colorado . [ 2 ] The 3,908-acre (1,582 ha) park, which opened on May 18, 2013, [ 3 ] includes dramatic rock outcroppings, several streams and a waterfall.