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Summit Lake is a freshwater lake located in the northwest corner in the southwestern county, Thurston County. The lake is about east of McCleary, Washington, west from the state capital of 
Olympia
The name Olympia may refer to:
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* ''Olympia'' (1938 film), by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the Berlin-hosted Olympic Games
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, and west-northwest of Tumwater, Washington. It is accessible through a Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is a department of the government of the state of Washington, United States of America. The WDFW manages over a million acres of land, the bulk of which is generally open to the public, and mor ...
owned boat launch at the southwestern side of the lake. Some of the fish found in this lake include rainbow trout
The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...
, kokanee Kokanee is a word from the Okanagan language referring to land-locked lake populations of sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''). It may also refer to:
* Kokanee Range, a subrange of the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada
* Kokanee sal ...
, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, and coastal cutthroat. Summit Lake is a clean fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...
lake with a wide variety of fish. It is a popular lake to fish at in Thurston County and the South Puget Sound
South Puget Sound is the southern reaches of Puget Sound in Southwest Washington, in the United States' Pacific Northwest. It is one of five major basins encompassing the entire Sound, and the shallowest basin, with a mean depth of . Exact defini ...
.
Early variant names were "Prays Lake" and "Crooked Lake"; the present name was adopted .
References
{{reflist Lakes of Thurston County, Washington Washington