Boating and fishing in the PLPOA lakes requires boating permits and/or fishing licenses!
Fishing
PLPOA owners/renters/guests must purchase and pick up your fishing licenses at the PLPOA Admin office (230 Port Ave.) or the Pagosa Lakes Rec Center (45 Eagles Loft Cir.) You can call the admin office (m-f 8am-5pm) ahead of time, pay over the phone with a credit card, and pick up your passes at your convenience. 970-731-5635 ext. 214
Wyndham owners/guests please purchase your daily or weekly passes online using the link provided for you at check in. Please note you will need a sign in code that you should also receive at check in. Once your order is complete you can pick up your passes at the Pagosa Wyndham Check in Desk.
View the current fee schedule and order passes online here. (After clicking the link you must scroll down to the Fishing section.
Download the 2024 fishing regulations
Boating
You must register your boat with PLPOA staff to obtain a boating permit, and any boat that is pulled on a trailer needs to be inspected by staff at the Administration Office before you will be allowed to use the boat on our lakes. (Per my phone conversation in 2023 with the PLPOA, inflatable boats/kayaks don't require registration)
Boating permits are $20.00 for the first boat, and $10.00 for each boat thereafter.
- No internal combustion engine-powered boats allowed, except for PLPOA and Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District (PAWSD)Employees while in performance of their duties. If an outboard or inboard engine is attached and cannot be easily removed from the boat, the fuel line must be disconnected from the engine for its use to be permitted on a lake.
- Each boat must have at least one U.S. Coastguard approved wearable personal flotation device for each boat occupant. Each boat occupant under the age of 12 must wear a U.S. Coastguard approved wearable personal flotation device while the boat is in use on any lake.
- Each boat shall have at least one usable oar or paddle.
- All boats must be operated in a safe manner.
- The use of homemade rafts or plain inner tubes is not permitted.
- Except for lakeshore lot owners, boats must be launched from established boat ramps. If boat is stored at one of the Association Member boat storage locations, boat must be registered, chained and locked to the posts provided.
- Any violation of the above listed Boating Regulations can result in a $75.00 fine.
Also Not Allowed are medium to high biological risk boats as described by the State of Colorado, which are house boats, cabin cruisers, ski boats with ballast tanks, large open boats, sailboats and wake board boats (typically complex boats with ballasts, bilge and live wells).
Low risk design sailboats, simple hulls and/or pontoon type, Hobie or catamaran type sailboats shall be allowed to continue using the lakes after passing inspection, but all complex sailboats with bilges or ballasts shall not be allowed to float on PLPOA lakes and will be denied boat registration at inspection time.
Find more details on the PLPOA boating page.
Download the Lake Access Map here