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If you need a spot to stay Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites ATHENS is a pleasant choice; there's always Echo Lake Dam to go to near Echo Lake. And if you're still looking for more outdoors entertaining stuff just keep reading. Camping at Lake Athens Marina and RV Park is always a perfect experience, and do check out Harris Lake, it's a gorgeous lake. Echo Lake is wonderful enough to spend more than a day at, Staway Ranch RV Park is a wonderful local campground.
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| | Echo Lake sees pretty high levels of rainfall; all through May this area sees the most rain; the driest of the months is August.
This lake is so wonderful. You'll locate a pretty lake called Chapman Lake near Echo Lake, and enjoy a round of golf at Echo Creek Country Club. For the duration of the summertime highs here at Echo Lake reach the 90's. Once the sun is down it falls down to the 70's. All through the wintertime the highs are regularly in the 50's | |
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while the cold winter nights at Echo Lake are in the 30's. There are plenty of people from Athens here at Echo Lake, and there are some magnificent whitewater spots on Neches River.
Boggy Branch is a fine local stream; dry warm beds await you at Quality Inn & Suites Athens.
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Quality Inn & Suites Athens, Athens
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12 miles away
Largest Outdoor Pool in Town, Free Restaurant style breakfast, truck/RV parking, High Speed Internet, Restaurant and Lounge on premises, Outdoor pavilion, Barbecue grill for guest use located near pav...
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites ATHENS, Athens
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13 miles away
Relax in Comfort at Our Hotel in Athens, Texas You can easily relax amid all the comforts of home when you stay at this modern and contemporary Holiday Inn Express® Athens hotel. Texas visitors ap...
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Current weather conditions at Echo Lake, Henderson County, Texas
Local climate location: ATHENS 13 miles away
        
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.24333
Longitude: -95.65167
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Neches River, Anderson Cherokee CountyCounty, 19 miles away
Class II+ - 3 miles long (Lake Palestine to US 175) |
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Staway Ranch RV Park
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Tent Sites, RV Hookups, Pets OK, Fires OK, Store, Nearby Grocery, Gameroom, Showers, Laundry, Nearby Restaurant(s), Nearby Attractions, Fishing, Boating...
TENT:$20.00 per night, - 40 RV hookups, PETS:Small pets kept on a leash while outside, and kept inside at night., GAMEROOM:Card game etc....
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We are located on route 84 west of Rusk TX. Located 1/2 mile from the Texas State Park. They have a scenic rustic train ride between Rusk and Palestine TX. With the old steam engines. It is an all day trip with a lay over in Palestine so there is time to have lunch at. We advertise the longest foot bridge in the nation here in Rusk TX. There are several Lakes with-in 45 minutes or the Park with Great fishing. We have a quiet park with 41 spaces. Most are shaded, with lots of lawn and grass in the park. All are full hook-up. We have 50 and 30 amp pull through's. We have a rec room with clean toilet and shower we are proud of. We also have a laundry room available for our clients.
We have several restaurants in the local area. We have grocery stores near the Park with a Super Wal-Mart in Jacksonville 20 minutes north of us.
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Rhines Lake
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Dam broke in Jan. 2008. Lake is no longer there.... |
Neches River
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...tally do-able float. There's not really any fast water to speak of, but you need to be prepared to make short portages and negotiate downed timber in the water. One area in particular you will need to tie some line off to your kayak and let it float under a downed tree, you crawl over the tree and then get back in. I'm sure the when and where the trees are down changes quite often.... And it looks like someone (probably the river authority) takes a saw down and cuts some of this out from time to time.
The put in location is correct. However, the take out is not. You need to float further down to the 175 bridge (less than 1/4th mile) and get out there.
I would suggest that experienced paddlers attempt this only when the water is high from heavy rains or when the dam is letting a lot of water out. There's vegetative litter stuck in the trees 10 foot above the water line.... So at some points of the year... This thing moves... And could represent dangers with the amount of timber.
You might consider taking a machete on this trip just in case. Don't forget the fishin... |
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