It’s a nice campground right on the lake with a mountain backdrop. It feels like Rocky Mountain but that park is 6 miles north of us. These are the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area and the Arapaho National Recreation Area.
One day we hiked the shoreline of Granby Lake a short distance. The next day we walked 4.5 miles around Monarch Lake with so many people it felt like a day at the fair but everyone was wearing a mask!
Today we hiked 2 miles up to Strawberry Lake. This was a rather strenuous hike up but the forest and lake are very pretty. John was lamenting that he should have brought his fishing rod until we read the signage that the lake has no game fish in it. The lake and surrounding meadow is part of a rare and fragile ecosystem of extraordinary value. The mat of floating grass and peat, called a fen, is very delicate but an important part of the mountain area that took thousands of years to form but could be ruined in moments by foot traffic.
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