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Frederick Recreation Area and Milavec Lake
129 acres around Milavec Lake: fishing piers, non-motorized boating, a 1.26-mile loop plus 1.7 miles of paved trail, an off-leash dog park, two playgrounds, a fitness court and a 30,000-square-foot skate park.
The Town’s biggest park wraps Milavec Lake with a 1.26-mile crusher-fine loop and 1.7 miles of paved trail, fishing piers (a Colorado license over 16; no ice fishing, because the aerators keep the ice unstable), non-motorized boating once the water is clear of ice, an off-leash dog park, a basketball court, horseshoe pits, two playgrounds, picnic pavilions and a tile mural on the old pumphouse. Bald and golden eagles winter here. At the south-west corner is the Frederick Skate Park, 30,000 square feet of poured concrete designed with Team Pain: an 18,500-square-foot street course, an egg bowl, a 10,000-square-foot flow bowl and two full pipes, unsupervised and lit for evening use; the Town posts its hours as dawn to 10 pm. Shelter reservations close from 30 September to 1 February.
At a glance lake · fishing · trails · dog park · skatepark · boating
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Read about Frederick Recreation Area and Milavec Lake
- Explore Frederick: five places in walking order
Breakfast at Gabe's, Crist Park and the museum in the old Town Hall, barbecue at Georgia Boys, the rest of Fifth Street up to the rec center and Centennial Park, then a short drive to Milavec Lake and a brewery. One street, parked once, and the days of the week that matter.
- Frederick: a coal camp called McKissick, three daughters, a lake the town dug itself, and the boom up I-25
Named McKissick for a mine owner, laid out in 1907 by Frederick A. Clark's daughters and named for their father, built by Italian immigrant miners, flooded in 1957 and 2013, and grown from 8,679 people to 14,513 between the 2010 and 2020 censuses. The short history of Frederick, with sources.
- Frederick with kids: a lazy river, a foam pit, a 30,000-square-foot skate park, storytimes and Santa in Crist Park
The rec center pools and their rules, Kid Zone, gymnastics open gym, the winter basketball and swim-lesson dates, the library's storytimes and clubs, the playgrounds, the skate park and Milavec Lake, and this fall's dates from Empty Bowls to the Festival of Lights. Where to go with children in Frederick.
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