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Colorado · USACE Omaha District (Bear Creek Dam)

Bear Creek Lake water level

Today's reading against full pool and Bear Creek Lake's own seasonal history.

Searched “Bear Creek lake level” or “lake level for Bear Creek Lake”? Same lake, same reading — you're in the right place. The current reading is right here too, whether you typed “current Bear Creek Lake water level” or “current water level at Bear Creek Lake”.

FULL POOL 5545 5550 5555
Elevation, feet (project datum)

as of October 1, 2026

5544.29 ft project datum

level 13.7 ft below full pool — unusually low for early October

Reading comes straight from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Access to Water data (USACE lake gauge) and updates live when you load this page.

Is Bear Creek Lake full?

Not quite — 13.7 ft below full pool as of October 1, 2026

How full is Bear Creek Lake? Not as a percentage: no storage figure comes through with this gauge reading, and a share of capacity worked out from the elevation alone would be a guess — how much water a reservoir holds at a given level is a curve only the operator's own capacity table knows. Feet from full pool is what the operator publishes, and it is the figure above.

Bear Creek Lake through the year

The band is the lake's own normal: where the level has run on each calendar day, 1990–2026. The summer drawdown — and how this year sits in it — shows up without reading a single number.

full pool 5545 5550 5555 5560 JFMAMJJASOND
Median and normal range by day of year, 1990–2026 · elevation, feet (project datum)

This year vs the years that matter

This year's trace against last year and the driest and wettest years on record — the drought-context question every lake regular asks.

full pool 5560 5580 5600 JFMAMJJASOND
  • 2026 (this year)
  • 2025 (last year, driest on record)
  • 2015 (wettest on record)

Full pool, datum, and the gauge

"Full pool" here means the conservation pool — the level the lake is designed to hold for water supply and recreation, not the flood-control space above it. The full explainer covers flood pool and dead pool too.

Full pool 5558.00 ft project datum · per USACE Omaha District (Bear Creek Dam) full-pool reference
Conservation capacity 1,824 acre-feet · per USACE Omaha District (Bear Creek Dam) capacity reference
Gauge USACE lake gauge · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Access to Water data
Datum project datum — The district publishes the gauge and the top of conservation pool figure in the project's own datum, so the two compare like for like.
Last verified August 20, 2026

LakeDates reports lake level, not ramp status. Whether a given ramp or marina is usable at this level varies ramp by ramp — call the marina before you tow.

Quick answers

What is the lake level for Bear Creek Lake today?

Bear Creek Lake is at 5544.29 ft (project datum) as of October 1, 2026 — 13.7 ft below full pool — unusually low for early October.

Is Bear Creek Lake full?

Not quite — at 5544.29 ft on October 1, 2026, Bear Creek Lake is 13.7 ft below its full pool of 5558.00 ft (project datum).

How full is Bear Creek Lake?

Not as a percentage: no storage figure comes through with this gauge reading, and a share of capacity worked out from the elevation alone would be a guess — how much water a reservoir holds at a given level is a curve only the operator's own capacity table knows. Feet from full pool is what the operator publishes, and it is the figure above.

What is full pool for Bear Creek Lake?

Full pool (the conservation pool) for Bear Creek Lake is 5558.00 ft project datum, per USACE Omaha District (Bear Creek Dam) full-pool reference. Levels above it use flood storage; levels below it are drawdown.