Summer Lake

Trail Overview

Summer Lakes is an amazing lake hidden behind Mount Fisher. Summer Lake has a free public recreation site with camping areas. You will need to bring a VHF Radio as the roads are narrow in sections and you must call depending on the instructions posted by the logging services at the start. Following alongside the Bull River, you travel up a well-maintained Forest Service Road (FSR). At around 17 miles (27 kilometers), the Bull River FSR splits and you want to follow the Summer Lake FSR. Once on the Summer Lake FSR, the road is maintained but to a lower level, so expect some holes, washboards, ruts, and fallen rock on the trail. At the 22-mile (35-kilometer) mark, you will start to gain elevation to the lake. It's 3,740 feet at 22 miles, and 5,040 feet at 32 miles. Non-4WD vehicles would be able to reach this lake for the majority of the summer months. The colder months would need 4WD, as the elevation brings in the snow on the trail. When the water level of the lake is low, be careful driving around the lake as you can end up bogged in.

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Difficulty

These narrow (single-wide) shelf roads have no space for passing. You would possibly need to back out to let someone through.

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