Just a couple of days ago I had a very pleasurable, very mellow hike up to Lost Lake where I have not been for a number of years. I had forgotten just how charming and beautiful this lake is. If you get the chance, you should carve out a couple of hours to head that way sometime before the snows set in.

Ten Shillings writes:

Lost Lake is one of those hidden Chaffee County gems. You really have to know what you are looking for since there are no signs marking the trailhead. To find it, you go up Cottonwood Pass until you see a paved turn out on the right side of the road and a trail going into the woods on your left. Follow the trail over a few meandering hills, past another little lake, over a stream or two, to a steep uphill section that plows its way through undergrowth (most of that little section is spent ducking and protecting the lenses on our cameras). You emerge at the top of a little ridge and there before you lies the lake.

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