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Maroon Lake

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Maroon Lake

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  • Location: Pitkin County, Colorado, United States

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    May 7, 2022

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    Maroon Lake, near Aspen, is undoubtedly one of the most photographed landscapes of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

    It occupies a basin dug by glaciers during a glaciation, and later closed by a dam naturally formed during landslides and rock falls from the slopes upstream.
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