Lake Estes is a reservoir in

Estes Park, Colorado Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 5,904 at the 2020 United States Census. Estes Park is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corr ...

created by

Olympus Dam Olympus Dam is a dam located on the Big Thompson River, in the town of Estes Park, Colorado. The reservoir behind the dam, Lake Estes Lake Estes is a reservoir in Estes Park, Colorado created by Olympus Dam. The lake has a shoreline of about and ...

. The lake has a shoreline of about and a surface area of . The reservoir lies on the

Big Thompson River The Big Thompson River is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 78 miles (123 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. Originating in Forest Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park, the river flows into Lake Estes in the town ...

and is a component of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Lake Estes sits at 7,522 feet in elevation with approximately 4 miles of shoreline within Larimer County.

References

Estes Estes is an English-language surname said to derive from Old English and have the meaning "of the East" (literally, "East's"). As a surname, it has been traced to southern Kent, as early as the mid-15th century, Nicholas Estes (Ewstas, Esteuzi) b. 1 ...

Estes Park, Colorado

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