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Vallecito Lake webcam

The lake as the marina camera sees it. When the camera is offline we say so here instead of showing an old picture.

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Offline since Aug 18

The lake cam is offline.

No live picture since Aug 18, and no saved frame to show. Back for ice-off. The conditions dashboard still updates every 15 minutes.

Offline since Aug 18 Looking east-southeast across the reservoir
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The best seat on the lake

Here is what the cam shows when it is live. You're looking east-southeast across Vallecito from the marina — which happens to be pointed exactly where the day begins. Catch it early and you'll see first light spill over the ridge and slide across the water; some mornings the lake is glass, some mornings the mist is doing its thing, and every one is different. Through the day it's boats heading out, weather rolling over the San Juans, and the slow show of a mountain lake at 7,665 feet doing what it does. Pour a coffee and check on your lake — it never runs the same episode twice.

This camera is independently operated by GoVallecito with the marina's cooperation. When it is live, it shows the lake as it actually is, not last summer's brochure; when it is down, this page says so and since when. Pair it with the live conditions dashboard and the CDOT road cameras below for the full picture before you drive up.

The roads up

The cameras that actually matter for a trip are the CDOT snapshots on US 160 and US 550 — the Bayfield / CR 501 turnoff, US 160 east of Bayfield, and US 550 through Durango. Same eight cameras as the road status page, embedded here too.

Live road cameras: Durango access

The latest CDOT snapshots on the route in, refreshed automatically while this page is open. Tap a camera for a larger view. There's no camera on CR 501 itself, so for that final climb, dial 511.

CR 501 — the last leg to the lake

CDOT doesn’t report CR 501 and there is no public camera on it — use the cameras below for the road in, and 511 for the rest.

511 CDOT road conditions and closures, by phone, any time.

US 160 — Wolf Creek Pass, if you come from the east

Cameras: CDOT / COtrip · images refresh every few minutes · a frozen frame usually means the camera, not the road. CDOT doesn't cover CR 501 itself. More COtrip cameras

CDOT does not cover CR 501 itself — the last stretch up to the lake has no public camera. For that leg, call 511 or the marina. Full road status (not just cameras): conditions page