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Site 13, Lake Canyon
The springs of Lake Canyon fed a natural lake of clear, clean water called Lake Pagahrit. The lake provided a welcome relief and the opportunity for the pioneers to clean up. Its natural dam provided an easy means for crossing the canyon. In 1915 the natural dam washed away when water from three days of hard rain breached the dam.

 
 
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Hole-in-the-Rock/River Gorge - winter conditions, Lamont Crabtree Photo
Lake Canyon/Site of Lake Pagahrit
Hole-in-the-Rock/River Gorge - winter conditions, Lamont Crabtree Photo
Lake Canyon/Site of Lake Pagahrit
 
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Lake Pagahrit -- Aerial view of the site of Lake Pagahrit. The sandy area in the center of the image is the site of the natural dam that formed the lake. Lamont Crabtree Photo
Aerial - Site of Lake Pagahrit Dam
 
Lake Canyon -- Lake Canyon wild flowers, Lamont Crabtree Photo
Lake Canyon - spring flowers
 
Lake Canyon -- Infrared image of a few cottonwood trees which are very numerous throughout the canyon, Laurel Casjens Photo
Lake Canyon cottonwoods
 
Lake Canyon -- Wagon parts along the trail two miles northeast of Lake Canyon, Lamont Crabtree Photo
Wagon parts along the trail north of Lake Canyon
 
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Sunday, Feb. 29th, 1880. "Drove 7 miles over a rough rocky and sandy road to the lake, a beautiful clear sheet of spring water ½ a mile long and nearly as wide, and apparently very deep. Cottonwood, willow, canes, flags, bulrushes and several kinds of grass grow luxuriantly, and it would make an excellent stock ranch. On a point of rock jutting into the lake is the remains of an old stone fortification, built probably several hundred years ago."
Platte D. Lyman