| Grand Lake | | Grand Lake, looking east | | Coordinates | 40°14′42″N, 105°48′58″WCoordinates: 40°14′42″N, 105°48′58″W | | Surface elevation | 8,367 ft (2,550 m) | | Settlements | Grand Lake, Colorado | Grand Lake is a natural lake, one of the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. On its shores is located the eponymous town of Grand Lake. The elevation of the lake surface is 2550 meters. It is the largest natural lake in the state of Colorado, formed by the damming of several streams by a glacial moraine. It is adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand Lake was named Spirit Lake by the Ute Tribe because they believed the lake's cold waters to be the dwelling place of departed souls and avoided it. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Aerial view of Grand Lake Grand Lake is a town located in Grand County, Colorado. ...
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Colorado-Big Thompson Project
Grand Lake forms a continuous body of water with the artificial Shadow Mountain Lake, which then flows into Lake Granby. Water collected in Lake Granby is pumped to Shadow Mountain and Grand Lakes, then under the Continental Divide via the Alva B. Adams Tunnel to the Big Thompson River on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. From here, the water flows into the South Platte River and is used for agriculture, human consumption, and industry. This is the first of many large-scale diversions of water from the Colorado River Basin between Colorado and the Gulf of California. A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of...
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External links - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation website on Colorado-Big Thompson Project
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