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Willamette Zone

High lakes stocking schedule - North Willamette District

June 21, 2019

Includes lakes in the Mt. Hood National Forest and the Bull of the Woods and Roaring River wilderness areas.

To help create fisheries in Oregon's back country, off-road areas, ODFW stocks 59 lakes in the North Willamette District every two years with brook, rainbow and cutthroat trout. 

Learn more about fishing high lakes 

Lake Name Acres Depth Elevation National Forest/Wilderness*
Anvil  2 5' 4,000' Mt Hood NF
Averill  12 11' 4,650' Mt Hood NF
Big Slide  4 10' 4,250' Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Big Slide, Upper 1 11' 4,300' Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Brown, North 3 5' 4,200 Mt Hood NF
Brown, South 3 5' 4,200' Mt Hood NF
Buck 9 26' 4,000' Mt Hood NF
Bump  3 4' 4,300 Mt Hood NF
Burnt  8 25' 4,100' Mt Hood Wilderness
Cast  7 17' 4,450' Mt Hood Wilderness
Clear  1 5' 3,869' Mt Hood NF
Cottonwood Md. 6 4' 4,050' Mt Hood NF
Cub  2 12' 4,300 Mt Hood NF
David  3 8' 4,500' Mt Hood NF
Dinger 15 4' 4,000' Mt Hood NF
Donna  2 8' 5,200 Mt Hood NF
Double Peaks 4 13' 4,700' Mt Hood NF
El      4,800' Mt Hood NF
Ercrama  2 15' 4,450' Bull of the Woods Wilderness
First  3 19' 4,950' Mt Hood NF
Fish     4261 Mt Hood NF
Frazier  3 8' 4,100' Mt Hood NF
Gifford  9 56' 4,950' Mt Hood NF
Gifford, Lower 2 19' 4,950' Mt Hood NF
Head 6 9' 4,950' Mt Hood NF
Hideaway 12 30' 3,800' Mt Hood NF
Horseshoe 60 14' 5,150' Mt. Jefferson Wilderness
Indian, South 2 13' 4,700' Mt Hood NF
Jeni 2   3,840' Roaring River Wilderness
Joyce 2   3,800' Mt Hood NF
Lower  15 73' 4,750' Olallie West
Memaloose 8 5' 4,100' Clackamas Wilderness
Mirror 8 15' 4,050' Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
Nekbobets  3 10' 5,250' Mt Hood NF
Plaza 5 10' 3,650' Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
Pyramid 5 9' 5,000' Roaring River Wilderness
Red 6 7' 4,550' Mt Hood NF
Rimrock 3 14' 5,150' Mt Hood NF
Rock, Lower 9 13 4,100' Roaring River Wilderness
Rock, Middle 15 34' 4,350' Roaring River Wilderness
Rock, Upper 3 22' 4,400' Roaring River Wilderness
Round 9 20' 3589 Mt Hood NF
Serene  20 46' 4,350' Roaring River Wilderness
Sheep 4 9' 4,800' Mt Hood NF
Shellrock  20 8' 4,200' Roaring River Wilderness
Shining  12 24' 3,950' Roaring River Wilderness
Silver King 4 7' 4,100' Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Skookum  4 14' 3,800' Mt Hood NF
Surprise  5 4' 4,050' Mt Hook NF
Suzi  2 7' 4,240' Roaring River Wilderness
Timber 10   5,160' Mt Hood NF
Twin, Lower 15 40' 3915 Mt Hood NF
Twin, Upper 15 50 3780 Mt Hood NF
Veda  3 14' 4,400' Mt Hood NF
View 7     Mt Hood NF
Upper 8   5,400' Mt Hood NF
Wall  5 12' 4,400' Mt Hood NF
Welcome  6 8' 4,200' Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Williams  4 4' 3,850' Willamette NF
Wind  3 3' 4,700' Mt Hood NF

* Trail links are for general guidance only. Consult the nearest US Forest Service office for the latest trail conditions. 

For more information about these lakes -- including the species stock, GPS coordinates and additional trail notes -- click here.

 

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