Swimming holes in Colorado
Swimming holes in Colorado, each compiled from its own sources: access, legality, water season, and the walk in. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Boyd Lake State ParkLoveland · State parkBoyd Lake State Park, a Loveland irrigation reservoir on the plains below Long's Peak, sits on the homestead of a man who helped build northern Colorado's first trans-mountain ditch.
- Clear Creek tube run and whitewater parkGolden · Whitewater parkA free whitewater course on Clear Creek in downtown Golden, Colorado, which designer Gary Lacy pitched to a reluctant city council in 1996 as "a nice little amenity."
- Guffey Gorge / Paradise CoveGuffey · Swimming siteA Bureau of Land Management day-use swimming hole in southern Park County, Colorado, where West Fourmile Creek drops through granite into a pool once known to a few hundred people a year.
- Highline Lake State ParkLoma · State parkA two-lake state park near Loma, Colorado, fed by spill from the Government Highline Canal, whose larger lake was drained in 2024 to kill zebra mussels.
- Jackson Lake State ParkOrchard · State parkTop park beach with shoreline camping and large warmwater reservoir; first Colorado State Park to be certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.
Swimming Holes in all eleven states; next door in Arizona.