List of Colorado state parks

This is a list of state parks in the Colorado State Parks system.

The Colorado State Parks system integrates outdoor recreation with tourism. There are currently forty-two parks open to the public, there are two in development. Colorado State Parks host over eleven million visitors each year. Colorado State Parks celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2009.

This agency also takes lead in managing Colorado's boating, off-highway vehicle, snowmobile, river-outfitter licensing, and trails programs.

Park Name	County or Counties	Area		Year opened	Remarks	Photos
Park Name	County or Counties	acre	ha	Year opened	Remarks	Photos
Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area	Chaffee, Fremont, Lake, Pueblo	6,193	2,506	1998
Barr Lake State Park	Adams	2,715	1,099	1977
Bonny Lake State Park	Yuma	4,793	1,940	1966
Boyd Lake State Park	Larimer	334	135	1965
Castlewood Canyon State Park	Douglas	2,621	1,061	1964
Chatfield State Park	Douglas, Jefferson	3,895	1,576	1975
Cherry Creek State Park	Arapahoe	3,346	1,354	1959
Cheyenne Mountain State Park	El Paso	1,680	680	2006
Crawford State Park	Delta, Montrose	734	297	1964
Eldorado Canyon State Park	Boulder	885	358	1978
Eleven Mile State Park	Park	7,662	3,101	1970
Elkhead State Park	Moffat, Routt	2,200	890
Golden Gate Canyon State Park	Jefferson, Gilpin	11,998	4,855	1960
Harvey Gap State Park	Garfield	320	130	1987
Highline Lake State Park	Mesa	563	228	1967
Jackson Lake State Park	Morgan	3,305	1,337	1965
James M. Robb - Colorado River State Park	Mesa	890	360	1994
John Martin Reservoir State Park	Bent	13,176	5,332	2001
Lake Pueblo State Park	Pueblo	10,279	4,160	1975
Lathrop State Park	Huerfano	1,596	646	1962
Lone Mesa State Park	Dolores	11,702	4,736	N/A	Under development.
Lory State Park	Larimer	2,492	1,008	1975
Mancos State Park	Montezuma	553	224	1987
Mueller State Park	Teller	5,112	2,069	1988
Navajo State Park	Archuleta, La Plata	5,087	2,059	1964
North Sterling State Park	Logan	5,700	2,300	1992
Paonia State Park	Gunnison	1,857	752	1964
Pearl Lake State Park	Routt	300	120	1964
Ridgway State Park	Ouray	3,201	1,295	1989
Rifle Falls State Park	Garfield	48	19	1966
Rifle Gap State Park	Garfield	1,341	543	1966
Roxborough State Park	Douglas	3,317	1,342	1975
San Luis State Park	Alamosa	586	237	1993
Spinney Mountain State Park	Park	6,080	2,460	1987
St. Vrain State Park	Weld	688	278	1965
Stagecoach State Park	Routt	1,641	664	1965
State Forest State Park	Jackson, Larimer	70,838	28,667	1970
Staunton State Park	Park, Jefferson	3,652	1,478	2013
Steamboat Lake State Park	Routt	2,820	1,140	1967
Sweitzer Lake State Park	Delta	210	85	1972
Sylvan Lake State Park	Eagle	1,548	626	1987
Trinidad Lake State Park	Las Animas	2,860	1,160	1980
Vega State Park	Mesa	1,823	738	1967
Yampa River State Park	Routt, Moffat	3,112	1,259	1998

External links

Colorado State Parks website

Protected areas of the State of Colorado

Federal

National Parks	Black Canyon of the Gunnison Great Sand Dunes Mesa Verde Rocky Mountain

National Monuments	Browns Canyon (BLM-USFS) Canyons of the Ancients (BLM) Chimney Rock (USFS) Colorado Dinosaur Florissant Fossil Beds Hovenweep Yucca House

National Recreation Areas	Arapaho (USFS) Curecanti

National Historic Sites	Bent's Old Fort Sand Creek Massacre

National Historic Trails	Old Spanish Trail Oregon Trail Pony Express Trail Santa Fe Trail

National Scenic Trail	Continental Divide Trail

National Forests	Arapaho Grand Mesa Gunnison Pike Rio Grande Roosevelt Routt San Isabel San Juan Uncompahgre White River

National Grasslands	Comanche Pawnee

National Wilderness	Black Canyon of the Gunnison Black Ridge Canyons Buffalo Peaks Byers Peak Cache La Poudre Collegiate Peaks Comanche Peak Dominguez Eagles Nest Flat Tops Fossil Ridge Great Sand Dunes Greenhorn Mountain Gunnison Gorge Holy Cross Hunter-Fryingpan Indian Peaks James Peak La Garita Lizard Head Lost Creek Maroon Bells-Snowmass Mesa Verde Mount Evans Mount Massive Mount Sneffels Mount Zirkel Neota Never Summer Platte River Powderhorn Ptarmigan Peak Raggeds Rawah Rocky Mountain National Park Sangre de Cristo Sarvis Creek South San Juan Spanish Peaks Uncompahgre Vasquez Peak Weminuche West Elk

National Conservation Areas	Dominguez-Escalante Gunnison Gorge McInnis Canyons

National Wildlife Refuges	Alamosa Arapaho Baca Browns Park Monte Vista Rocky Flats Rocky Mountain Arsenal Two Ponds

BLM ACECs	66 Areas of Critical Environmental Concern

State

Colorado State Parks	Arkansas Headwaters Barr Lake Bonny Lake Boyd Lake Castlewood Canyon Chatfield Cherry Creek Cheyenne Mountain Crawford Eldorado Canyon Eleven Mile Elkhead Golden Gate Canyon Harvey Gap Highline Lake Jackson Lake James M. Robb - Colorado River John Martin Reservoir Lake Pueblo Lathrop Lone Mesa Lory Mancos Mueller Navajo North Sterling Paonia Pearl Lake Ridgway Rifle Falls Rifle Gap Roxborough San Luis Spinney Mountain St. Vrain Stagecoach State Forest Staunton Steamboat Lake Sweitzer Lake Sylvan Lake Trinidad Lake Vega Yampa River

Colorado Natural Areas	Aiken Canyon Ant Hill Antero-Salt Creek Arikaree River Badger Wash Blacks Gulch Blue Mountain Bonny Prairie Boston Peak Fen Boulder Mountain Park Boulder Valley Heronry Brush Creek Fen California Park Castlewood Canyon Chalk Bluffs Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Comanche Grassland Copeland Willow Carr Cross Mountain Canyon Daves Draw Deep Creek Deer Gulch Dinosaur Ridge Dome Rock Droney Gulch Duck Creek Dudley Bluffs East Lost Park East Sand Dunes Elephant Rocks Elk River Escalante Canyon Escalante Creek Fairview Fourmile Creek Fruita Paleontological Garden Park Fossil Gateway Palisade Geneva Basin Iron Fens Gothic Gunnison Gravels Haviland Lake High Creek Fen High Mesa Grassland Hoosier Ridge Hurricane Canyon Indian Spring Indian Springs Trace Fossil Irish Canyon Jimmy Creek Ken-Caryl Ranch Kremmling Cretaceous Ammonite Lake Pasture Lake San Cristobal Limestone Ridge Lookout Mountain Lost Park Lower Greasewood Creek McElmo Mexican Cut Mini-Wheeler Miramonte Reservoir Mishak Lakes Moosehead Mountain Mount Callahan Mount Callahan Saddle Mount Emmons Iron Fen Mount Goliath Narraguinnep Needle Rock North Park Phacelia Orient Mine Owl Canyon Paradise Park Park Creek Hogback Park Mesa Pawnee Woodlands Pyramid Rock Rabbit Valley Rajadero Canyon Raven Ridge Redcloud Peak Rocky Mountain Woodfrog Pond Rough Canyon Roxborough Running Creek Ryan Gulch Saddle Mountain San Miguel River Sand Creek Shell Duck Creek Shell Rock Slumgullion Earthflow South Beaver Creek South Boulder Creek South Cathedral Bluffs Specimen Mountain Staunton Tabeguache Tamarack Ranch Tern Island Treasurevault Mountain Trinidad K-T Boundary Two Buttes Unaweep Seep Uncompahgre Fritillary Wacker Ranch West Creek Wheeler Geologic White Rocks Williams Creek Yanks Gulch/Upper Greasewood Creek Natural Area Zapata Falls

State Wildlife Areas	307 Colorado State Wildlife Areas

Other

Trails	American Discovery Trail Colorado Trail Continental Divide Trail Great Divide Trail Kokopelli Trail Paradox Trail Tabeguache Trail

Colorado Department of Natural Resources (web)

Lists of state parks by U.S. state

State of Colorado

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