Echo Lake Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 33.5 mi (54 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbecue grills on one end of the lake, and the 1926 Echo Lake Lodge and an Arapaho National Forest campground are found at the other.”
Wikipedia article Echo Lake Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Along CO 103 and CO 5 SW of Idaho Springs, Idaho Springs, 80452
When was it listed? February 1995
Category. district
Also known as. Denver Mountain Parks MPS
Census division. Idaho Springs
National Register reference number. 95000109 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Echo Lake Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL'S NOSE
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WEST CHICAGO CREEK
4 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
30 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ECHO LAKE
27 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	UTE CREEK
17 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BARBOUR FORK
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SODA CREEK
16 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SOUTH CHICAGO

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 128 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 128 workings within 5 miles of Echo Lake Park: 111 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 producers, 3 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
394357	Silver, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Bald Eagle	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Belle Creole	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Bruce	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Cascade Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Silver
Charter Oak	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect	Galena, Pyrite
Dixie Mine	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Polybasite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Tennantite
Elizabeth M. Lode	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer	1950
Humboldt	Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Producer	Pyrite, Sphalerite
Humboldt Et Al Claims	Silver, Gold, Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Torbernite

Every working recorded in Clear Creek County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Miner Street Bridge	4.5 miles	1985
Summit Lake Park	4.9 miles	1995
McClellan House	5.8 miles	1972
Hotel de Paris	5.9 miles	1970
Grace Episcopal Church	6.1 miles	1973
Alpine Hose Company No. 2	6.1 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000109 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clear Creek County	All 24 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.