{"id":24958,"date":"2019-06-06T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/turquoise-lake-campgrounds-open-friday-but-some-sites-are-unavailable-due-to-snow\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:04:00","slug":"turquoise-lake-campgrounds-open-friday-but-some-sites-are-unavailable-due-to-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/turquoise-lake-campgrounds-open-friday-but-some-sites-are-unavailable-due-to-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Turquoise Lake campgrounds open Friday, but some sites are unavailable due to snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-TurquoiseLake-SDN-060719.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-TurquoiseLake-SDN-060719.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-TurquoiseLake-SDN-060719-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The state&#8217;s highest point, the 14,440-foot Mount Elbert, left, and other snow-capped peaks in the Sawatch Range are seen from just south of Leadville Tuesday evening. Turquoise Lake, a popular campground destination north of Mount Elbert, will open up to camping Friday, though lingering snowpack is still affecting some site availability.<\/strong><br \/><em>Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Up near Leadville, all campgrounds around Turquoise Lake and the Halfmoon Road (U.S. Forest Service Road 110) will open Friday, June 7, the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s Pike &amp; San Isabel districts announced on their social media channels Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Because of the heavy snow season, the Forest Service added that some sites still might be unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Forest Service also said reservations for sites that currently are uninhabitable have been or will be transferred to other sites, and no cancellations are expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/turquoise-lake-campgrounds-open-friday-but-some-sites-are-unavailable-due-to-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state&#8217;s highest point, the 14,440-foot Mount Elbert, left, and other snow-capped peaks in the Sawatch Range are seen from just south of Leadville Tuesday evening. Turquoise Lake, a popular campground destination north of Mount Elbert, will open up to camping Friday, though lingering snowpack is still affecting some site availability.Antonio Olivero \/ aolivero@summitdaily.com Up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 17:31:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}