Activities

Who says you can't get a little taste of nature close to home?  McKay Lake gives you the perfect getaway after a long day of tapping the keyboards and signing the docs.  This short 1.2 mile loop around the lake provides more than just water scene.  Nature calls from the hooting owls, slithering crossings from the resident bull snakes, buzzing fly-by's from local dragon flies and many others just might take your attention away from the surrounding views.

Just northeast of Denver and northwest of DIA, Barr Lake is the focus of the eponymous state park and home to the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Bird records for the park go back well over a century, making this historically the best-studied birding site in Colorado. In that time, Barr has added at least eighteen species to the state list. The lake is almost completely surrounded by mature cottonwoods, often several deep with considerable undergrowth, making this an excellent place to find migrant landbirds and riparian breeders.