ColoradoReservoirLake County

Turquoise Lake

Turquoise Lake covers about 1,780 acres in Colorado. You will find it in Lake County. USFS San Isabel NF (USBR-owned) manages it.

Photo: Clyde Charles Brown · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

CountiesLake County

Coordinates39.2692, -106.3831

Surface area1,780 acres

Managed byUSFS San Isabel NF (USBR-owned)

Swimming beaches on Turquoise Lake

No named swimming beach is mapped yet for this lake. Access is through agency day-use areas and boat ramps listed below. We add beach pages only when we can confirm a name, coordinates and an operating agency.

Turquoise Lake on the map

Lake center, swimming spots and access points.

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Weather and water temperature

Air temperature and wind from Open-Meteo. Water temperature only when the lake has a public sensor.

Weather data by Open-Meteo

Turquoise Lake: beaches, ramps and water level

Where an agency publishes a figure, we show it with the time it was taken; here there is none. There is no live level reading for Turquoise Lake. The agencies that run this water do not publish one openly, and we do not estimate what has not been measured.

The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Turquoise Lake. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued. If you need a named beach, Silverthorne Area on Dillon Reservoir is some 30 miles from here. County parks and private resorts sometimes provide access that federal datasets never record.

If Turquoise Lake is busy, the nearest alternatives here are Carter Lake (Colorado, 11 mi), Twin Lakes Reservoir (Colorado, 13 mi) and Ruedi Reservoir (Colorado, 22 mi). Colorado has 48 lakes on this site in total.

Most Colorado day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it. Freshwater advisories are issued locally, so check the state health department before you swim. Water temperature is not measured at this lake by any public agency we read.