GC44QJR Small fry fishin'
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Roskoe52 @ | Hide Date: 01/21/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 36.622 W104° 49.792 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
     

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The park terrain except for the hogback is flat averaging 6425 feet of elevation. The hogback on the park north boundary gains 40 feet of elevation in the west and increased to 140 of elevation in the east. Much of the park ground cover is prairie and juniper prickly with scattered candelabra cholla. The park woodlands are primarily juniper and piņon. Exotic woodlands are cottonwood and Russian olive. The area west of Horseshoe Lake is partially marsh land with cattails and bulrush.

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Lathrop State Park, while sitting in the shadows of the Spanish Peaks, has the honor of being Colorado’s 1st State Park and covers 1594 acres. The main features of the park are its two lakes; Martin Lake, which covers about 180 surface-acres; and Horseshoe Lake which covers 150 surface-acres. Both host a wide range of water activities and catchable fish.

Lathrop State Park is 3 miles west of Walsenburg via US Hwy. 160. Entrance to Lathrop State Park requires a park pass that can be purchased at the visitor center for display on your vehicle windshield. There is also a self-serve station near the park entrance, to purchase a pass if the visitor center is closed. The visitor center sells annual parks passes as well. Colorado disabled veterans displaying Colorado Disabled Veteran (DV) license plates are admitted free without a pass.

Beginning on Memorial Day weekend and ending on Labor Day weekend, each Friday and a different illustrated or “talks-and-props” presentation is offered at the amphitheater. History, geology, and wildlife of the area are just some of the many programs presented.

Lathrop’s picnic areas, which received an outdoor recreation award for America’s Top 15 Picnic Areas, are situated around both Martin Lake and Horseshoe Reservoir. Each table has a stand up fire grill, and most tables are shaded. Picnic tables are on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Keep your eyes peeled for the many bird species that inhabit the park year-round!

Be aware that there are rattlesnakes in the park.

The youth fishing pond was constructed in 1994. Water fills the pond from Martin Lake via a controlled gate ditch about 50 yards away. The paved Cuerno Verde Trail is a few yards away from the pond, and a gravel road access from the main park road to the pond is about 100 south of the golf course. The water level in the pond decrease until early spring when the Martin Lake water level begins to rise up to the inlet of the pond. There is a possibility that the pond will not receive water because of drought conditions.

06/07/2019 By Lightstormz
On my way up from Houston I was working on the Texas County challenge, staying in San Angelo and then Amarillo, then heading to meet family in Colorado Springs. Big thanks for the hide.

06/06/2019 By yampa58 & Geowife
Nice area, nice hide! Thanks for the cache!

05/27/2019 By Kport345
Took something and left something!Awesome geocache but you can get scratched by some branches.

05/24/2019 By Recoil5
Thanks.

04/11/2019 By Felina G.O.D
Saw a blue heron. Thought the cache was snow. TFTC

09/01/2018 By primusb79
Watch it for the cacti....TFTC!

08/14/2018 By Dyn-O-Mite
Looked for this one a year ago or so with no luck. Turned out it was missing at that time. This time. It was there,and I found it without too much trouble.
That's for the cache, I signed the log.

08/12/2018 By mleigh1989
Super nice day! Tftc!

07/28/2018 By Bokmeow
what a joy to have this many caches near our campground. :) tftc! tnlnsl

06/26/2018 By TeamTippey
tftf!

06/26/2018 By Bee-Knees
By beautiful lake