Your own lakeside paradise: 25-pic photo adventure

[SF Chronicle RSS Feed - Tom Stienstra]

Your chance to find a lakeside paradise can be found in a little corner of the world along the Gold Lake Highway. A 10-mile radius of national forest here in the north Sierra is speckled with dozens of lakes, five lodges with cabins, and nine campgrounds, with another five campgrounds in nearby range. You get a series of lakes in gorgeous settings for outstanding flat-water for paddling and low-speed boating, two world-class hikes to towering peaks, fishing for trout dinners, and enough hidden sites where you could explore for weeks and not see it all. You don’t need a 4-wheel-drive or to be part caveman to get here, either, or [...]

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