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California lakes, carved in wood

75 California lakes cut from real depth soundings into layered birch, from Lake Tahoe (179.7 square miles) to the deep water of Lake Tahoe (1634 ft). Every board carries the shore roads, the towns and a title block; four sizes from $149, made to order in Pennsylvania.

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Bass Lake wood map
Bass Lake
A small Sierra foothill reservoir just south of Yosemite's gate, ringe…
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Big Bear Lake wood map
Big Bear Lake
Southern California's mountain lake, at 6,750 feet in the San Bernardi…
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Bouquet Reservoir wood map
Bouquet Reservoir
Bouquet Canyon Dam backs up a creek in the Sierra Pelona Mountains — f…
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Briones Reservoir wood map
Briones Reservoir
Built in 1964 to hold Mokelumne River water for the East Bay
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Bucks Lake wood map
Bucks Lake
A 1928 dam turned a Plumas Forest creek into 1,700 acres at 5,150 feet
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Calaveras Reservoir wood map
Calaveras Reservoir
A drinking-water reservoir 25 miles from downtown San Jose, off-limits…
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Camanche Reservoir wood map
Camanche Reservoir
A 1963 dam on the Mokelumne caught what Pardee released upstream, 25 m…
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Castac Lake wood map
Castac Lake
A natural lake tucked into the Grapevine grade of Interstate 5, near F…
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Castaic Lake wood map
Castaic Lake
Castaic Dam closed the canyon in 1973 to hold State Water Project deli…
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Clair Engle Lake wood map
Clair Engle Lake
Named for a senator, filled behind a 1962 dam, still called Trinity La…
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Clear Lake wood map
Clear Lake
The oldest lake in North America, and California's largest natural lak…
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College Lake wood map
College Lake
188 acres in the Pajaro Valley that mostly disappears by the end of a …
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Collins Lake wood map
Collins Lake
Formed by damming Dry Creek in 1963, eight miles of shoreline near Ore…
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Don Pedro Reservoir wood map
Don Pedro Reservoir
The 1971 dam that drowned the original 1923 Don Pedro Dam on the Tuolu…
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Donner Lake wood map
Donner Lake
Three miles of Sierra water below Donner Pass, named for the winter of…
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Eagle Lake wood map
Eagle Lake
Home to a trout subspecies found nowhere else, on a volcanic plateau n…
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Elderberry Lake wood map
Elderberry Lake
A 329-acre forebay with five miles of shoreline in the Angeles Nationa…
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Fallen Leaf Lake wood map
Fallen Leaf Lake
A deep glacial lake just over the ridge from Tahoe, dammed by its own …
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Folsom Lake wood map
Folsom Lake
Sacramento's backyard reservoir on the American River, built in the Go…
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Harry L. Englebright Lake wood map
Harry L. Englebright Lake
Built in 1941 to trap Gold Rush mining debris before it reached the Sa…
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Honey Lake wood map
Honey Lake
No outlet, no dam — a closed desert basin the Susan River feeds and ne…
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Huntington Lake wood map
Huntington Lake
A high Sierra sailing lake at 7,000 feet, built by an electric utility…
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Ice House Reservoir wood map
Ice House Reservoir
A PG&E reservoir on Ice House Creek, cut into the Crystal Basin at 5,5…
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Jenkinson Lake wood map
Jenkinson Lake
A 1955 earthfill dam on Sly Park Creek backs up 605 acres in the Sierr…
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June Lake wood map
June Lake
A glacier-carved lake in the Eastern Sierra loop, framed by Carson Pea…
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Laguna Lake wood map
Laguna Lake
203 acres on the Santa Rosa Plain, five miles of shoreline shaped by s…
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Lake Almanor wood map
Lake Almanor
A wide mountain reservoir under Lassen Peak, built by PG&E over a cent…
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Lake Aloha wood map
Lake Aloha
A reservoir behind a dam, drained each winter to bare granite, refille…
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Lake Arrowhead wood map
Lake Arrowhead
The alpine lake in the San Bernardinos where Hollywood went to cool of…
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Lake Berryessa wood map
Lake Berryessa
Napa County's big lake, famous for the spillway that swallows floodwat…
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Lake Bullards Bar wood map
Lake Bullards Bar
A 1969 thin-arch dam on the North Yuba River backs up 37 miles of shor…
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Lake Casitas wood map
Lake Casitas
The Ventura County reservoir that hosted Olympic rowing and once held …
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Lake Cunningham wood map
Lake Cunningham
Dug from a borrow pit to build the freeways around it, 106 acres deep …
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Lake Davis wood map
Lake Davis
Poisoned twice to kill an illegal fish, then restocked with trout.
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Lake Elizabeth wood map
Lake Elizabeth
A natural sag pond formed along the San Andreas Fault, near Lake Hughe…
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Lake Elsinore wood map
Lake Elsinore
Southern California's largest natural lake, fed by a river that only s…
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Lake Hemet wood map
Lake Hemet
A concrete dam raised in 1895 turned a Garner Valley creek into 361 ac…
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Lake Henshaw wood map
Lake Henshaw
Impounded in 1923 on the San Luis Rey River, above Warner Springs in S…
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Lake Isabella wood map
Lake Isabella
Formed in 1953 when the Kern River was dammed above old Kernville.
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Lake Jennings wood map
Lake Jennings
Three miles of shoreline behind a dam that supplies San Diego County's…
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Lake Mathews wood map
Lake Mathews
The Colorado River Aqueduct's final stop, finished in 1938 and named f…
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Lake McClure wood map
Lake McClure
Built in 1967, New Exchequer Dam buried the gold-rush town of Excheque…
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Lake Miramar wood map
Lake Miramar
Twenty miles of San Diego shoreline hold a reservoir with two miles of…
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Lake Nacimiento wood map
Lake Nacimiento
A warm, winding reservoir in the oak hills between Paso Robles and the…
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Lake New Melones wood map
Lake New Melones
Completed in 1979, the dam flooded a gold-rush town named Melones for …
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Lake Oroville wood map
Lake Oroville
The tallest dam in the country, holding back California's second-large…
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Lake Palmdale wood map
Lake Palmdale
Two miles of shoreline in high desert, twelve feet deep at most, ten m…
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Lake Perris wood map
Lake Perris
Terminus of the East Branch aqueduct, holding Sacramento Delta water f…
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Lake Pillsbury wood map
Lake Pillsbury
Backed up behind Scott Dam on the Eel River since 1922, still undammed…
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Lake Piru wood map
Lake Piru
Formed in 1955 when Santa Felicia Dam closed off Piru Creek.
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Lake Skinner wood map
Lake Skinner
A drinking-water reservoir behind Skinner Dam, holding Colorado River …
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Lake Sonoma wood map
Lake Sonoma
Formed in 1983 when the Army Corps dammed Dry Creek, 36 miles of shore…
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Lake Tahoe wood map
Lake Tahoe
Sixteen hundred feet of water in a granite bowl, mapped from sixty mil…
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Little Grass Valley Reservoir wood map
Little Grass Valley Reservoir
A 1961 dam on the South Fork Feather River holds it at 5,000 feet, abo…
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Loon Lake wood map
Loon Lake
A SMUD reservoir on Gerle Creek, 6,400 feet up, where afternoon wind b…
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Los Vaqueros Reservoir wood map
Los Vaqueros Reservoir
A 1,500-acre reservoir behind the East Bay's third-tallest dam, no gas…
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Millerton Lake wood map
Millerton Lake
Behind Friant Dam, the San Joaquin backs up over the drowned site of F…
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Mono Lake wood map
Mono Lake
Formed at least 760,000 years ago, saltier than the ocean, with no fis…
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Mystic Lake wood map
Mystic Lake
A closed basin near Riverside that disappears in dry years and refills…
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New Hogan Lake wood map
New Hogan Lake
A second Hogan Dam drowned the first one in 1963, on the Calaveras Riv…
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O'Neill Forebay wood map
O'Neill Forebay
A pumping station's holding pond, finished in 1967, now chased by wind…
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Pacheco Lake wood map
Pacheco Lake
A private bass lake in Pacheco Pass, 151 acres in San Benito County ra…
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Pardee Reservoir wood map
Pardee Reservoir
Pardee Dam sealed the Mokelumne River in 1929 — no swimming allowed, o…
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Pyramid Lake wood map
Pyramid Lake
A pyramid-shaped rock stood on Piru Creek until Pyramid Dam flooded th…
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Quail Lake wood map
Quail Lake
Built 1969–1973 to carry aqueduct water safely across the fault line i…
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San Antonio Reservoir wood map
San Antonio Reservoir
Built on San Antonio Creek to supply San Francisco, closed to the publ…
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San Luis Reservoir wood map
San Luis Reservoir
Filled entirely by pumps, not a river — the largest off-stream reservo…
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San Vicente Reservoir wood map
San Vicente Reservoir
San Vicente Dam went up in 1943, then rose 117 feet more by 2014.
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Shasta Lake wood map
Shasta Lake
California's largest reservoir, backed up behind the third-tallest dam…
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Shaver Lake wood map
Shaver Lake
A lumber company dammed Stevenson Creek to float logs before Edison re…
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Silverwood Lake wood map
Silverwood Lake
Cedar Springs Dam closed the West Fork Mojave in 1971 to build it
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Turlock Lake wood map
Turlock Lake
State Route 132 dead-ends at the dam that made it, near Modesto.
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Upper Oso Reservoir wood map
Upper Oso Reservoir
64 acres tucked into the foothills above Irvine, max depth about 43 fe…
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Vail Lake wood map
Vail Lake
Temecula Creek, dammed in 1948, holds bass records anglers still chase…
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Whiskeytown Lake wood map
Whiskeytown Lake
A Trinity River reservoir near Redding, built to trade water between t…
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