Bagging 15 Lakes in One Day in Olallie Lake Scenic Area
An overview of my first exploration of Olallie Lake Scenic area full of drive up lakes, short bushwhacks and a hike.
I realized I tend to put out posts specific to certain lakes but haven't really done any posts showing the days where I go out exploring and bag multiple lakes in a day. So I thought I'd do a post on how I accomplished visiting 15 lakes in one day and show my itinerary.
For my 25th birthday I went with my parents to explore Olallie Lake Scenic Area. Last year, for my 24th birthday we went and explored 16 lakes in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. I made a post about that itinerary as well.
I have individual posts that go into extensive detail about each lake, this post is just to give a cliff notes version of the route I took to bag all these lakes in one day.
Lakes Bagged: 15
To start: It was around 1 hour and 30 minutes from Estacada, Oregon to Olallie Lake Scenic Area via Hwy 224 to FS 46 to FS 4690 to FS 4220. We left around 9:30am and got to the scenic area around 11am.
All the lakes I went to this year were accessed via FS 4220. So I'll reference the coordinates of where along FS 4220 the different stops were.
Drove FS 4220 to Triangle Lake Equestrian Camp
Campground lake access trail 0.15 miles round trip.
Drove FS 4220 to 44.85059, -121.77555.
Bushwhacked from FS 4220 to edge of lake 0.11 miles round trip.
Drove FS 4220 to Lower Lake Campground and scouted the campground. Then we proceeded done FS 4220 to 44.82145, -121.79387.
Lake was visible from road.
Drove FS 4220 to 44.81893, -121.79285.
Lake was visible from road.
Drove FS 4220 to 44.81680, -121.79104.
Lake was visible from road and had a view of Mt Jefferson.
Drove FS 4220 to 44.79491, -121.78933.
We parked at the north terminus of the Monon Lake Trail and walked to the edge of the lake. FS 4220 follows along the edge of the lake.
Drove FS 4220 to Horseshoe Lake Campground. This section of road narrows and required 4-wheel drive and a high clearance vehicle.
We parked in the campground which is closed to camping due to the fire damage.
Lunch at Horseshoe Lake
We ate lunch at a picnic table with a view of the lake. I walked along the campground road and up FS 4220 along the lakes edge to see more of the lake.
We turned around at this point and headed back up FS 4220 to Camp Ten Campground along Olallie Lake.
We accessed the lake's edge through Camp Ten Campground. FS 4220 follows along the edge of the lake so it is visible from the road. Near Olallie Lake Resort there is a view of Mt Jefferson.
Drove FS 4220 to Lower Lake Campground.
Total hiking distance was 5.05 miles round trip.
Drove FS 4220 to FS 5690 to FS 46 to Hwy 224 to Estacada, OR.
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