Lory State Park - Colorado

Address:708 Lodgepole Dr
Bellvue, Colorado

Lory State Park provides a plethora of endless recreational opportunities, from rock climbing and water skiing to snow shoeing. Both the wildlife and wildflowers create a beautiful and serene backdrop for hikes through the park, as well as fishing on the lake or a picnic in the fields. There are groves of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests here, filled with wild turkeys, mule deer, squirrels, and rabbits, to name just a few. The park also offers nature programs and interpretive hikes that visitors are encouraged to join. With all of this and six backcountry campsites, Lory State Park is a sure ticket for a beautiful adventure in nature.

Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2½ times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean.