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The surface elevation of Redfish Lake is 6,547 feet (1,996 m) above sea level. The lake is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) long and 0.72 miles (1.2 km) wide, with a maximum depth of 387 feet (118 m), and 11 miles (18 km) of shoreline. The actual trail around the lake is 17.5 miles (28 km) in length.
The Upper Redfish Lakes are a chain of small alpine glacial lakes in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lakes are drained by an unnamed creek that is a tributary of Redfish Lake Creek , which flows into the Salmon River .
There are hundreds of lakes in the Sawtooth Mountains, most of which have been created by alpine glaciers.The majority of the lakes are within the Sawtooth Wilderness, but several are not yet still within Sawtooth National Recreation Area The largest lakes are Redfish, Alturas, Pettit, Yellow Belly, Stanley, and Sawtooth lakes.
Idaho: Redfish Lake. ... Fishing is the main attraction here, but warm summer temperatures attract swimmers, tubers, and water-skiers. Related: Best Fishing Spots in All 50 States.
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The 100-year-old lodge at the popular recreation destination remains closed as firefighters battle the Bench Lake Fire, which is at zero containment about 8 miles south of Stanley.
The lakes flow into the river via Redfish Lake Creek. Besides the red-scaled salmon that come to this lake, Little Redfish Lake also has a clay pit, located at the bottom of the lake. In 1961, Richard Brautigan wrote portions of his novella Trout Fishing in America while camping near the lake, which is featured in several chapters of the book. [2]
Little Redfish Lake is in the Big Boulder Creek Watershed of the White Cloud Mountains (another Little Redfish Lake is south of Stanley and downstream of Redfish Lake). Sawtooth National Forest trail 213 leads to Little Redfish Lake from trail 047 along Big Boulder Creek. [1]