What's under Blue Mesa Reservoir

In the early 1960's the decision was reached to build a reservoir to the west of the town of Gunnison Colorado. This was to be a huge water retention body of water to be used for irrigation and flood control. This meant that some of the finest trout waters in the Gunnison river would be inundated and under several hundreds of feet of water once the lake was full. The resorts and hotels that catered to the fishermen would also be lost.

The Lake was put in and is now a tremendous asset to the area and offers its own brand of excellent fishing for salmon, trout and other cold water fish species.

We ended up taking a tour of the Pioneer Museum in Gunnison, Colorado and found someone had taken a map of the lake and identified the various businesses, towns, resorts and other spots of interest that were lost under the lake and where they where located. This seems like something that should be retained as a digital record so I photographed the map and description to have on  my blog for future reference.