At a Glance
Difficulty
Hard
Distance (one-way)
5.5 miles
Elevation
11,342 ft
Elevation Gain
N/A
Trailhead
Ypsilon Lake TH
Park Area
Horseshoe Park / Lawn Lake Area
Side of Divide
East
Coordinates
40.4413°N, 105.6787°W
Horseshoe Park / Lawn Lake Area

Chiquita Lake

Near Mt. Chiquita

Chiquita Lake, Horseshoe Park / Lawn Lake Area, Rocky Mountain National Park — 11342 ft elevation

About Chiquita Lake

The Horseshoe Park / Lawn Lake Area setting gives Chiquita Lake its frame: a hard lake, 11,342 feet high, and positioned on the east side of the Continental Divide.

The Lawn Lake and Horseshoe Park area climbs from open valley terrain into the Mummy Range high country. It lies near Mt. Chiquita. The approach from Ypsilon Lake TH is 5.5 miles one-way and belongs in the hard tier for this guide.

NPS and USGS both document the 1982 Lawn Lake flood as a major hydrologic event in this drainage, which gives the quiet lake basins above Horseshoe Park an unusually visible park-history layer.

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