Wild Chipmunk

One the left side of the picture, nestled up next to the white wood coaster, you can see the Wild Chipmunk.  It is the grey structure with the red circle next to it.  The adjacent lake was originally called Sylvan Lake, but it was renamed Lake Rhoda in honor of Benjamin Krasner's daughter Rhoda.  When Benjamin died in 1965, Rhoda inherited the park.

Lakeside is unusual because it is also its own city, albeit a small city.  In 1970, Lakeside, Colorado only had seventeen residents.  According to the 2010 Census, the population had dropped to eight and the city covers 0.2 square miles of land.

©2018 Joel A. Rogers.