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KLXV · LXV

Lake County Airport

39.22030°N

-106.31700°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 40.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 46.7%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

5 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KLXV 272253Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM BKN090 BKN120 20/00 A3058 RMK AO2 SLP203 T02000000

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

88% of ops

71 land · 14 TO

12% of ops

10 land · 45 TO

Runway 34 carries 88% of operations (71 landings, 14 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

34 71 landings

UA 1%

16 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 34 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 71 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

5.5

flights/day · 164 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 2pm

Day vs night

85%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 5.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (7.5 vs 5.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 110 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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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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