chapman reservoir

Grab your Shaboomee SUP and head to beautiful Chapman Reservoir!

This small reservoir is a great location to SUP past Ruedi up the Frying Pan Road out of Basalt Colorado!

Wildlife in the area abounds. Bighorn sheep navigate rocky ridges and bull elk bugle at dusk. Scenic rivers sustain populations of cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout. Alpine regions provide habitat for pika and ptarmigan. These species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams, and diverse forests to live.Flowing through this campground is Fryingpan River, renowned for its fly fishing. Downriver, below the campground and Ruedi Dam, large rainbow, brown, cutthroat and brook trout are plentiful in an area nicknamed the toilet bowl. Here, the fish feed on mysis shrimp, a small freshwater shrimp stocked in the lake.

On windy days, Chapman is mostly protected from the wind.

The road up to paved all the way to the turnoff.

PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. GENERALLY IT APPEARS IN THE AFTERNOONS.