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Lake City is an 1870’s mining town, located in a valley formed by the convergence of Henson Creek, and the headwaters of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River.  The picturesque community is surrounded by majestic, 14,000 ft peaks, and tall, old growth Cottonwood trees line the highway through town.  Though known as the snow mobile capitol of the world during the winter, Lake City also brims with tourism in the summer months, with trout fishing being one of the main attractions.  The nearby location of Lake San Cristobal enables visitors to fish to their heart’s content.  The lake, one of the largest natural bodies of water in Colorado, is well known not only for its rainbow and brown trout, but also for its sheer beauty.  Just below San Cristobal Lake, the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River offers very good dry, fly-fishing, and some decent fishing holes are also located right in town.  Hinsdale County produced more than ten million dollars worth of silver, gold, copper, lead, and zinc, during the boom years, so the mines of the area were some of the more extensively developed mines in the region.

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