Lost Canyon Creek

Streamflow, conditions and background by watershed segment. Data through November 1, 2026.

Major flood on the Lost Canyon Creek

Readings through Nov 4, 10:45 PM Mountain time

A Weather Service gauge on this river reached flood stage in the last 3 days. The map marks it with a diamond; one that pulses was in flood at its last reading, and a dashed ring means the gauge has stopped reporting.

  • Lost Canyon Creek above Dolores, CO

    Major flood

    Peak 13.2 ft on Nov 2, 2:30 AM. Last reading Nov 4, 10:15 PM: 6.0 ft, below flood stage. Weather Service gauge page

Not a warning. This page is rebuilt at least once a day, and again when a river's flood status changes, so it can be hours out of date. For what is happening now, see the Weather Service's current river levels and its flood safety advice.

Where it is

Segments are the HUC8 watersheds the gauges sit in, numbered upstream to downstream. Use the buttons to switch between the state and the river.

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About the Lost Canyon Creek

This report follows 28 miles (46 km) of the Lost Canyon Creek, all within the Upper Dolores watershed segment. At the lower end of the report the river drains about 74 square miles. Downstream of the mapped reach it flows into the Dolores River. 2 gauges with at least 26 weeks of daily flow cover 1941 to 2026.

From the archive: NHDPlus river network, WBD watersheds, NHD waterbodies, TIGER urban areas and the report's gauges.

From the headwaters down

Each watershed segment in order, with last week's flow rated against the same week in 1991–2020.

  1. Upper Dolores

    No data last week, 181 dry days this year.

    Median conductance 529 µS/cm in the 2020s.

Reservoirs

No reservoir with 500 acre-feet or more of storage on this river in the National Inventory of Dams.

Sources

Numbered sources for the statements above, as they were read when the page was prepared.