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Another Day in Paradise....all visitors agree. Hiking or biking, fishing or hunting, jeeping or rafting,
snowmobiling or sledding, reading or writing,or just relaxing: you can find it all here. Nestled among the enchanting
San Juan mountains, Lake City offers extraordinary people, great times, and mountains of memories. Discover Colorado's
hidden treasure and enjoy our savory dining, our cozy lodging, memorable music festivals and our distinctive shopping.
Stay a while and you'll agree...Another Day in Paradise!
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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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