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Lake of the Woods is a natural lake near the crest of the Cascade Range in the Fremont–Winema National Forest in southern Oregon in the United States. The lake covers 1,146 acres (4.64 km 2). It was named by Oliver C. Applegate in 1870. Today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife manages the lake's fishery.
Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve is a county park of 900 acres (360 ha) in size, located adjacent to Lake of the Woods, Illinois, USA. It is operated by the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, a governmental agency of Champaign County, Illinois , and the forest preserve district has built their headquarters in the park.
The Forest Service issued the first residential use permit for a private cabin in the Lake of the Woods area in 1916. In 1920, the Forest Service built a public campground at the lake. The site was very popular, with 1,850 summer visitors using the campground the first year it open. In 1923, the road into the Lake of the Woods area was improved.
An EF1 tornado tore through Hickory Woods Campground outside Brookville, Indiana, late Tuesday night. ... It’s a wooded oasis in a sea of farmland and just a stone's throw from Brookville Lake.
Lake of the Woods is home to walleye, northern pike, perch, sauger, crappie, panfish, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, lake trout, lake sturgeon, and muskellunge. Lake of the Woods is nicknamed the "Walleye capital of the world". The lake is the host of year-round fishing, with ice fishing being a popular recreation activity on the lake.
Water activities like fishing, canoeing, and kayaking are available. A short trail connects the main campground to the Wood River's headwaters spring. The park is located just off Oregon Route 62, approximately 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Crater Lake National Park, and 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Klamath Falls, Oregon. [3]
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Construction began in late 1950 and Woods Reservoir opened for public fishing and recreation on May 30, 1953 [3] It is located in Franklin and Coffee counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [4] At its deepest, the lake reaches 50 feet (15 m) (by the Elk River Dam.) Full pool elevation is 960 feet-mean sea level and winter pool elevation is 957 ...