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Castle Lakes Airport is a remote high-altitude private airstrip in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, sited a short distance south of the small town of Lake City. At an elevation of 9,298 feet it ranks among the higher general-aviation fields in the United States, and its short dirt runway makes it a strictly VFR, experienced-pilot destination.
Castle Lakes Airport is a small backcountry airstrip near Lake City, Colorado, used by general aviation pilots for access to the surrounding San Juan Mountains. Its high elevation and short unpaved runway give it the character of a genuine mountain airstrip rather than a conventional aerodrome, and it will appeal to simulator pilots looking for a demanding short-field approach in dramatic terrain.
The airfield lies in uncontrolled Class G airspace, roughly eight miles south of the town of Lake City, Colorado, on a small parcel of land in the mountainous terrain of Hinsdale County. There are no other airports of significance in the immediate vicinity, and the field sits well away from any controlled airspace.
Castle Lakes has a single physical runway, 05/23, surfaced in dirt and measuring 3,084 feet in length. There is no runway lighting and no instrument landing system.
No communications frequencies are published for Castle Lakes Airport, and it has no known navaids or instrument approach procedures, reflecting its status as a small, uncontrolled backcountry strip.
The airfield is located approximately eight miles south of Lake City, Colorado, which serves as the principal visual reference point for locating the strip amid the surrounding mountain terrain.
Castle Lakes remains a small private-use dirt airstrip serving general aviation in the Lake City area, with no fuel or other services indicated.
