Goat Lake is an
alpine lake in
Custer County,
Idaho,
United States, located high in the
Sawtooth Mountains in the
Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately southwest of
Stanley. The lake is most easily accessed from the Iron Creek trailhead, which can be accessed from
State Highway 21
''For roads named A21 see ; List of A21 roads''
Route 21, or Highway 21, can refer to:
International
* European route E21
Australia
* Chandler Highway
* Toowoomba Connection Road (QLD)
* - Kakadu Highway
Austria
* Wiener Außenring Autobahn
...
via Sawtooth National Forest road 619.
[Sawtooth National Forest. “Sawtooth National Forest” ap1:126,720, 1”=2 miles. Twin Falls, Idaho: Sawtooth National Forest, United States Forest Service, 1998.]
The route to lake follows a combination of the Iron Creek trail, Alpine Way trail, and an unmaintained hiking trail to Goat Lake. The trail is about 8.5 miles round trip and gains 1615 feet in elevation. Along the hiking trail are Goat Falls, which are on Goat Creek, which flows into the lake and drains out of it.
With a surface elevation of
above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
, Goat Lake often remains frozen into early summer.
Goat Lake is in the
Sawtooth Wilderness, and a wilderness permit can be obtained at trailheads. The hike to Goat Lake from the Iron Creek trailhead is a popular hike in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. This trail gains and offers great views of the
Sawtooth Valley. Visitors are permitted to camp anywhere in the National Forest, including around Goat Lake.
See also
*
List of lakes of the Sawtooth Mountains (Idaho)
*
Sawtooth National Forest
*
Sawtooth National Recreation Area
*
Sawtooth Range (Idaho)
References
External links
Goat Lake Trip Report
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Lakes of Idaho
Lakes of Custer County, Idaho
Glacial lakes of the United States
Glacial lakes of the Sawtooth Wilderness
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