Bacon Lake, located one-half mile east of Berthoud, is one of the few natural lakes in the Little Thompson region.
According to S.E. Newell, in a series of local history articles published in The Berthoud Bulletin in 1952, a man by the name Bacon owned the property adjoining the lake before 1885. Before that time, the lake was known as “Old Mud Lake” by the Turner family, who pastured horses near there in the late 1870s.
Local newspaper stories reveal that since the early days, Bacon Lake has been a destination for sportsmen. On March 14, 1895, The Berthoud Department of The Loveland Register reported, “Dr. McCarty, Uncle Dick Hubbell, Ed Hottle, Al Atwood, J. Wion, L. Reece, H. Faite and several others were the crowd that surrounded the small lake just east of town on Tuesday evening, expecting to bring home several ducks. But alas, we were all disappointed and the ducks were safe.”…