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Box Lake Trailhead
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Ac
May 24, 2021
Box Lake (6.4 miles RT, moderate-strenuous, 6.5 hours): This hike is in the Payette National Forest, McCall District, Lick Creek Road Area. Take Lick Creek Rd. near Ponderosa Park out of town about 15 miles. There is a toilet and better parking .2 miles before the trail head at a primitive campground known as Black Lee. From the Lick Creek Road the trail switchbacks up 800 feet in the first mile through a lodgepole/fir forest. At 1.5 miles it reaches a meadow and crosses a creek to another meadow. The trail crosses back over the creek at 1.7 miles and comes out to a brushy hillside. At 2 miles, it returns to the west side of the stream. Much of the area around Box Lake burned in the Blackwell Fire in 1994, so you have vast views of mountains along the way. At 2.2 miles, the trail climbs a meadow of bunch grass then passes granite pillars. At 2.5 miles there is a .2 mile long wet meadow. At 2.7 miles, you see Box Lake below. You can continue down another half mile to the beach and picnic spot or take a stunning photo of the lake and turn around. This is not only a physically challenging and somewhat remote hike, but the lake itself is really photogenic and the scenery is a great representation of the back country wilderness in northern Idaho.
Box Lake (6.4 miles RT, moderate-strenuous, 6.5 hours): This hike is in the Payette National Forest, McCall District, Lick Creek Road Area. Take Lick Creek Rd. near Ponderosa Park out of town about 15 miles. There is a toilet and better parking .2 miles before the trail head at a primitive campgrou…
Tanner
June 10, 2020
This is a very pretty lake one of my favorite lakes. It is actually very big for a high mountain lake. The trail up is steep and a little rough in places but the hike is worth it. It is 7.1 miles round trip and 2,247 feet in elevation.
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McCall, ID