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Pitkin Hatchery

Pitkin, CO

The Pitkin Hatchery is a cold water facility that sits at 9,200 feet in elevation in the Quartz Creek Valley. It is a brood and production facility focusing on trout and kokanee salmon. Approximately 1 million fish are stocked out of Pitkin each year, including 150,000 catchable rainbow trout. Rio Grande cutthroat trout are raised as brood fish to enhance conservation of this native fish.

Poudre River Fish Hatchery

Bellvue, CO

The Poudre Rearing Unit, a cold water facility, began operation in 1948. It is currently a brood unit producing millions of rainbow and greenback cutthroat trout eggs, and a production facility stocking 50,000 trout in public waters on the front range. One of the smaller units of the state, it is located in beautiful Poudre Canyon, 55 miles northwest of Ft. Collins at an elevation of 7,700 feet.