Willow Lake (Saguache County, Colorado)

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Willow Lake, also known as the lower Willow Creek Lake, is an alpine lake in Saguache County, Colorado. It’s in the Sangre de Cristo Range within the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness of the Rio Grande National Forest. The lake sits at about 11,580 feet in elevation and is roughly 0.26 miles long and 0.12 miles wide. Willow Creek is both its inflow and its outflow, and there are waterfalls at both the inlet and the outlet. The lake can be reached from the Willow Lake Trail (trail 865) at the South Crestone Lake Trailhead, east of Crestone. It lies north of Challenger Point and south of Mount Adams.