Welcome! Lake City Switchbacks is a guide to touring and exploring all of the back roads, byways, stage routes, pathways, and streets around Lake City, Colorado.
Dream away: Switchbacks offers inspiring photos of the area, maps to help you get to all of our magical places, and useful details to help you get the most out of your visit to Lake City.
There is always a mystery involved, trekking along a mountain trail. Lake City's paths and roads are ancient, riddled with clues and relics of the past. You never know what wonderful thing you may find, up around the next turn.
A tiny valley town settled at the confluence of two rivers, Lake City is on the eastern side of the glorious San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, in the most remote county in the lower 48 states.