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Scroll down for 4  misty morning views and two maps of the area. Click here to » visit a cabin very close to here for $294,000.

Scroll down for maps of the area.

Click here to » visit the home with lake views along the bottom for $299,000

Click here to » visit a cabin at the beginning of the canal (below the map) for $294,000

Click here to » visit the building site for $34,900

Click here to  » visit the building site for $46,000

Click here to » visit the building site for $49,000

If you would like to get to know the area on your own and spend a night nearby ...
click here for Mountain Lakes Lodge (shown on the upper map)

The fishing canal is almost two miles long with many scenic bends. It is part of the Colorado Big Thompson Project.
It transports a huge amount of water (up to 600 cubic feet per second pumped) from Lake Granby to Shadow Mountain Lake.
The concrete-cube Farr Pumping Plant at the north end of Lake Granby lifts the the lake water (snowmelt) approximately 150± feet
(depending on the lake's storage level) to a natural ridge overlooking Lake Granby. From there is flows by gravity through the
canal to Shadow Mountain Lake. The huge flow creates excellent habitat for trout and (delicious) kokanee salmon where it
spills into the south end of Shadow Mountain Lake. The water is a long ways from its designated use in the Great Plains
(originally to grow sugar beats to beat Cuban sugar cane .... that's another story on the quirks of history and geopolitics).
The water starts its downward flow through the canal and eventually to the natural Chanel from Shadow Mountain Lake
 to Grand Lake. It then finds its way to a man-made hole in Grand Lake that tunnels 13 miles to Estes Park under the Continental Divide.
From Estes Park, the water still has a two thousand foot drop down to the Great Plains  via the Big Thompson River and Canyon.
Hydroelectricity is generated in the almost 10 foot wide tunnel to power the Farr Pumping Plant and more. Additional
electricity is generated in the long drop to the Great Plains.

View of Lake Granby and the Farr Pumping Plant from the beginning of the Fishing Canal. Pipes run from the pumping plant to the canal
under the easement stretching from here to the "concrete cube" by the lake. Hydroelectric transmission lines can be seen near the pumphouse.
These lines are prominent across the land from here to Grand Lake's eastern short and also to additional reservoirs that pump up to Lake Granby.

Scroll down to zoom in on the goose that is using the canal as a flyway.

View of Lake Granby from the beginning of the Fishing Canal.

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