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Lake Agnes (Colorado)

Coordinates: 40°28′54″N 105°54′11″W / 40.481681°N 105.903176°W / 40.481681; -105.903176
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Lake Agnes
Lake Agnes and Mount Mahler
Location of Lake Agnes in Colorado, USA.
Location of Lake Agnes in Colorado, USA.
Lake Agnes
Location of Lake Agnes in Colorado, USA.
Location of Lake Agnes in Colorado, USA.
Lake Agnes
LocationState Forest State Park, Jackson County, Colorado, Colorado, United States
Coordinates40°28′54″N 105°54′11″W / 40.481681°N 105.903176°W / 40.481681; -105.903176
Primary outflowsMichigan River
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation10,666 ft (3,251 m)
Islands1

Lake Agnes is an alpine lake in the Colorado State Forest State Park occurring within the Never Summer Mountain Range. The lake lies within glacial tarn surrounded by a cirque consisting of Nokhu Crags, Static Peak, Mount Richthofen, Mount Mahler, and Braddock Peak. It is the deepest lake in the Colorado State Forest State Park. Lake Agnes is named after Agnes Zimmerman, the daughter of John Zimmerman, a homesteader in the area and the proprietor of the Keystone Hotel in Home, Colorado.[1]

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  1. ^ Watrous, Ansel (1911). History of Larimer County Colorado. Fort Collins, Colorado: The Courier Printing & Publishing Company. p. 155.