The best camping we found in nine days on the Lake Plateau, above a lake FWP says is full of colorful hybrids and everything in between.

Forty-six feet deep on the Lake Plateau, holding golden, rainbow and cutthroat all crossed together. FWP calls them colorful hybrids.

Fifteen acres and shallow, with abundant rainbow-golden hybrids. There is a trail to it, and going cross-country instead was a mistake.

Fifty-four acres and the biggest water on the Lake Plateau. Rainbow-golden hybrids to seventeen inches that FWP says fight hard.

Fifty acres and the hub of the Lake Plateau, with several trails serving it. Self-sustaining rainbows that nobody can account for.

Golden trout to eighteen inches, and FWP says they are more willing to take a fly here than at most golden lakes. A short walk from Martes.

Deliberately understocked to grow big cutthroat, and it works. FWP's last survey averaged over sixteen inches. Good camping at the east end.

Under five acres a short walk west of Jordan, and nothing published about it anywhere. Drop your packs at Jordan and go up empty-handed.

Five acres and an excellent campsite past Columbine Pass. Small fish now, though FWP has pulled a twenty-inch cutthroat out of it.

Forty acres and fifty-eight feet deep over Columbine Pass, on trail the whole way. Abundant cutthroat that nobody can account for.

Twenty-five acres over Columbine Pass and on trail the whole way. Shallow, and full of spawning cutthroat that outfish FWP's nets.

The first lake past Columbine Pass and off trail. Abundant cutthroat to nearly seventeen inches, spawning on their own on the shoreline gravel.