Mountain Home Reservoir is a reservoir and state wildlife area in

Costilla County, Colorado Costilla County (Spanish for "rib") is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,499. The county seat is San Luis, the oldest continuously occupied town in Colorado. History On July 8, 1694, ...

, near

Fort Garland Fort Garland (1858–1883), Colorado, United States, was designed to house two companies of soldiers to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley, then in the Territory of New Mexico. It was named for General John Garland, commander of the Military ...

. Frozen in winter, the reservoir lies at elevation on the western slope of the

Culebra Range The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish language, Spanish for "Blood of Christ") are the southernmost mountain range, subrange of the Rocky Mountains. They are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in the United States. The mountains ...

of the

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in southern Colorado. The reservoir impounds

Trinchera Creek Trinchera Creek is a tributary of the Rio Grande in Costilla County, Colorado in the United States. It flows west from a source in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to a confluence with the Rio Grande. It is spanned by the San Luis Southern Railwa ...

and lies near the Trinchera Ranch and Sangre de Cristo Ranches subdivisions. The dam was built in 1912–1913. The reservoir is the site of the Mountain Home Reservoir State Wildlife Area, managed by

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state parks system and the wildlife of the U.S. state of Colorado. , the division managed the 42 state parks and 307 wildlife areas of Colorado. , the Colorado Natural Areas Program had 93 designated si ...

. Among the species of fish anglers can catch in the reservoir is

northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus '' Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a ...

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Mountain Home Reservoir State Wildlife Area
* {{authority control Reservoirs in Colorado Lakes of Costilla County, Colorado 1913 establishments in Colorado Dams completed in 1913 Wildlife management areas of Colorado