Airports / KLXV / Lake County AirportIATA LXVModerate ground coverage

📍 Leadville⬆ 9,927 ft1 runways

KLXV · LXV

Lake County Airport

39.22030°N

-106.31700°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 50.0%

Lake County Airport (KLXV/LXV) is a small general aviation airport located in Leadville, CO, 74 mi south west of Lakewood. It features 1 runway measuring 6,400 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

5 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLXV 161653Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM CLR 22/03 A3048 RMK AO2 SLP114 T02170033

Runways

1 installed

6,400 FT MAX

16/34

6,400 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

82% of ops

28 land · 0 TO

18% of ops

6 land · 15 TO

Runway 34 carries 82% of operations (28 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 18%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

34 28 landings

UA 0%

16 6 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 28 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

0.6

flights/day · 19 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 8pm · 5pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 0.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (0.8 vs 0.6 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

3 · 16%

2 · 11%

1 · 5%

Activity is led by (16% of 19 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	118.375	—
ASPEN RC	119.850	—
OTHER	119.850	—
ASPEN RC	363.150	—
OTHER	363.150	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDV
Mag var:: 9° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Tony

08/12/2007

9927 Ft Elevation

North America's highest airport - land here, buy the Tee shirt, get the certificate. Check the weather before you proceed, the mountains on both sides of the valley here exceed 14,000 Ft.

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