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Kidd Lake is a remote paddling retreat ideal for venturous paddlers. However, the rocky dirt lake access road deters most paddlers from going here. RVs and vehicles pulling trailers should not attempt to drive on the lake access road. I didn’t see any designated launching or parking area, and there were only a limited number of places where you could pull your vehicle to the side of the narrow road and hand launch. It is advisable to paddle this location with a companion. No gas powered motors are allowed on either lake, so you’re probably thinking, this should be an ideal destination to kayak fish. Right? Well, you had it half right. Kidd and Cascade Lakes are superb for flat water paddling, before water is drawn down to mud hole levels, that is, but the fish taken here are few to none. Those that are caught are tiny four-inch brook trout which 4,000 are planted each year. The lake level is raised and lowered daily for power generation purposes, so the shoreline is sometimes muddy.
The nearest designated campground is located
at Donner Lakes, but at Cascade Lakes there
were a few pitched tents in the woods. Long
Lake, a natural lake with crystal-clear
water, is just one of
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