The 488-acre Sweetwater Lake property encompasses Colorado’s third-largest natural lake and offers limited camping, hiking, horseback riding and fishing.

The 488-acre Sweetwater Lake property encompasses Colorado’s third-largest natural lake and offers limited camping, hiking, horseback riding and fishing.

The land around Sweetwater Lake in Garfield County will become Colorado's newest state park. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app. Download the 9NEWS app ...

Colorado officials debuted a new state park Wednesday: Sweetwater Lake, a former ranch about 18 miles north of Dotsero. The park, Colorado’s 43rd, is the first state park in the nation to open ...

Canoes dry out before opening weekend at Sweetwater Lake in Garfield County. Officials are working to make it Colorado’s 43rd state park. (Kelsey Brunner, Special to The Denver Post) The lake has a ...

There is a controversy surrounding the prospective Sweetwater Lake State Park - the local community doesn't want it and has been fighting to halt state… The post ‘Save Sweetwater Lake ...

The recently acquired land around Sweetwater Lake in remote northeastern Garfield County is set to become the newest Colorado state park, the first state-federal partnership of its kind. Gov. Jared ...

Sweetwater Lake (credit: Todd Winslow Pierce) The announcement was made by the governor on Oct. 21 at the lake in western Colorado. He said the park should be open to visitors by the summer of 2022.

That opposition — largely from people living nearby — quickly followed Gov. Jared Polis announcing Sweetwater Lake as Colorado's next state park in 2021. The announcement came after the lake ...

The recently acquired land around Sweetwater Lake in remote northeastern Garfield County is set to become the newest Colorado state park, the first state-federal partnership of its kind. Gov. Jared ...