Camp Lake is a small
tarn located in the
Emigrant Wilderness
The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest and the Hoover Wilderness on the east, and State Route 108 ...
in
Tuolumne County, California
Tuolumne County (), officially the County of Tuolumne, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 55,620. The county seat and only incorporated city is Sonora.
Tuolumne County comprises the ...
, approximately north of
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...
. It is accessible only to hikers and equestrians via the popular
Deer Lake Trail.
Once a good fishing lake for Brook Trout, Camp Lake is no longer stocked by the California Department of Fish and Game due to the ongoing restoration of the Mountain Yellow Legged Frog in the Sierra Nevada. The lake once suffered from both winter and summer kills and relied on
annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical ...
s to sustain the fish population. The lake no longer contains trout.
Trail information
The Crabtree Camp Trailhead is large and usually full. The trail to Deer Lake descends a little, then begins climbing. Camp Lake, the destination for most hikers, is off the trailhead, at elevation. Backpackers continue to other lakes beyond.
See also
*
List of lakes in California
There are more than 3,000 named lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. state of California.
Largest lakes
In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline. It occupies ...
References
External links
*Wilderness Press. Sierra North: ''Backcountry Trips in California's Sierra Nevada''. 9 ed. Berkeley: Wilderness Press, 2005.
*Gong, Kevin
Kevin's Hiking Page 28 Mar. 2001. 21 Oct 2006.
*Lowe, Jim
2002-06-09.
Lakes of Tuolumne County, California
Lakes of Northern California
Lakes of California
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