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Lake Helene, ~10580' -- yup, slightly downhill from Two Rivers, and feeding a wholly different drainage despite being only about 0.1 mi apart! Two Rivers empties into Mill Creek while Helene courses down Fern Creek to Odessa, Fern, and the Big Thompson River.
D2_LakeHelene.jpg (494 Kb) (under photos/23/0812_RMNP_BearOdessaBierstadt/)
By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Tue Mar 10 18:16:39 MDT 2026)