Ridgway Reservoir
- Area
- 4.14 km²
- Tonight
- 35°FFair · Wind 0 mph
Ridgway Reservoir is a lake at 2,085 m above sea level in Colorado, United States, 4.14 km² in area and 5.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 2,085 m
- Length
- 5.1 km
- Shoreline
- 18.7 km
Ridgway Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 18.7 km≈4¾ h to walk around
Ridgway Reservoir 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.1 × 7.1 km
Ridgway Reservoir terrain and contours
20 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Ridgway Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Ridgway Reservoir weather
Tonight · Fair · 35°F (2°C) · 20% chance of precipitation · Wind 0 mph
Ridgway Reservoir forecast for about 2,121 m.
- Tonight35°20%0 mph
- Sat36°57°78%0–5 mph NNW
- Sun31°53°68%0–5 mph WSW
- Mon31°56°2%0–5 mph WNW
- Tue32°59°1%0–10 mph SW
- Wed33°58°1%0–5 mph SW
- Thu35°58°18%0–5 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:47 UTC.
Camping & parking near Ridgway Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Ridgway Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.6 km NNW
Nearest campsite
Pa-Co-Chu-Puk Campground
Nearest trailhead
Mear's Bay Trailhead
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.6 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.6 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.7 km NNW |
| Pa-Co-Chu-Puk CampgroundCampsite | 2.0 km NNW |
| Elk Ridge CampgroundCampsite | 2.2 km SE |
| Mear's Bay TrailheadTrailhead | 2.5 km ESE |
| WapitiTrailhead | 2.8 km SE |
| Mule Deer Meadow TrailTrailhead | 2.9 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 7.1 × 7.1 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 76% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.6% of the 50 km² view
- Relief in view
- 427 m low point 2,016 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.6 km; 398 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Plains Pricklypear40
- Mountain Bluebird33
- Mule Deer28
- Colorado Pinyon27
- Showy milkweed24
- Brittle Pricklypear23
Where Ridgway Reservoir sits
- Region
- Colorado59United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Ridgway Reservoir downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-10)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)