Vallecito Lake webcam
The lake as the marina camera sees it, plus the road cameras on the drive up from Durango.
The lake cam is offline.
No live picture since Aug 18, and no saved frame to show. Back for ice-off. The conditions dashboard still updates every 15 minutes.
The best seat on the lake
When it is live, you're looking east-southeast across Vallecito from the marina, right where first light spills over the ridge. Catch it early for glass or mist; through the day it's boats, weather over the San Juans and a mountain lake at 7,665 feet doing what it does.
The roads up
The cameras that actually matter for a trip are the CDOT snapshots on US 160 and US 550 — the Bayfield / CR 501 turnoff, US 160 east of Bayfield, and US 550 through Durango. Same eight cameras as the road status page, embedded here too.
Live road cameras: Durango access
The latest CDOT snapshots on the route in, refreshed automatically while this page is open. Tap a camera for a larger view. There's no camera on CR 501 itself, so for that final climb, dial 511.
CR 501 — the last leg to the lake
CDOT doesn’t report CR 501 and there is no public camera on it — use the cameras below for the road in, and 511 for the rest.
511 CDOT road conditions and closures, by phone, any time.
US 160 at Bayfield — the CR 501 turnoff
US 550 and US 160 — Durango
US 160 — Wolf Creek Pass, if you come from the east
Cameras: CDOT / COtrip · images refresh every few minutes · a frozen frame usually means the camera, not the road. More COtrip cameras
Full road status (not just cameras): conditions page