| Canoeing on Cranberry Lake |
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| There are many things that can be done while camping at Cranberry Lake. The Lake itself is the third largest body of water in the Park. The lake was originally about half this size, but in 1867 a log crib dam was completed in Cranberry Lake Village. There are many interesting day paddles that include secluded areas where no signs of civilization can be found. |
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| Some areas of the lake are so remote that they can only be reached by boat. To get to spots like this part of the Bear Mountain Swamp, you paddle past floating fishing shacks that had been towed to their moorings years ago. Big boats cannot reach these areas because the bottom is less than 2 feet away. In many areas we could touch bottom as we paddled. In addition, there are many submerged stumps just waiting to catch unwary boaters. |
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| This part of the Bear Mountain Swamp was reached after paddling for 1 1/2 hours from our camp site. It was hard to imagine as we sat here that somewhere, far in the distance, was the start of the Bear Mountain Flow, in the woods where we hiked the day before. It was also hard to imagine sitting in this calm water on the leeward side of Bear Mountain, that the lake we would have to paddle across was very rough. |
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| Bill had plenty of opportunities to go fishing in the lake. |
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| Up river, the other side of Wanekena, there is a canoe launch reachable by a one lane dirt road where the river can be paddled for several miles. |