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Beautiful Lucas Lake has much to offer visitors. Going for a hike on the Trinity Trail is always a wonderful adventure; after a long day outdoors La Quinta Inn Balch Springs is a tremendous location to spend a night or two. If you want a tremendous time in the great outdoors, just come on down to Lucas Lake. A round of golf at nearby Mesquite Golf Course is a nice way to kill some time; get covered with water paddling on Rowlett Creek. During your visit to
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| | Lucas Lake you'll meet some folks from Dallas -Fort Worth-Arlington for sure, and you can go for a hike on the Bob Woodruff Trail.
Why not go to Lucas Lake Dam since you're here. There's so much to do here at Lucas Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Nobility Village Mbl Home Park is a good location for that. High temperatures at Lucas Lake all through the summertime months are in the 90's. Summer overnight lows drop down to the 70's. For the duration | |
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of the wintertime highs are regularly in the 50's with winter lows in the 30's overnight here at Lucas Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Since you might be in a lake visiting mood you can always have a look at nearby Lawrence Lake.
You'll need more than a day to look at everything Lucas Lake has to offer, you can camp at Wagonwheel Mobile Home Park.
This lake is so wonderful. Lakes are fine; Tosch Lake is a lake that's in the neighborhood of Lucas Lake;
whitewater paddling is glorious on Duck Creek. Near Lucas Lake you stumble on the Wylie Community Park Trail which is a tremendous hiking trail, and if you need a spot to stay Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Mesquite, Tx is a tremendous
choice.
Lucas Lake gets a typical amount of yearly rain; the month of May is the wettest with most of the rain while January is the month with the least amount of precipitation.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.73
Longitude: -96.565
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| These outdoors activities are available near Lucas Lake. |
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| | Whitewater Near Lucas Lake:
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Duck Creek, Dallas CountyCounty, 13 miles away
Class II-III - 5 miles long (Beltline Road to Miller Road) |
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Rowlett Creek, Dallas CountyCounty, 13 miles away
Class II-III(IV) - 2 miles long (Pleasant Valley Road in Garland TX) |
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Spring Creek River, Collin Dallas CountyCounty, 18 miles away
Class II(III) - 3 miles long (Renner Road to Jupiter Road) |
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Rowlett Creek
| 13 miles away
.../78 is probably the cleanest and most scenic with pleanty of tree coverage and rock formations on both sides that sort of remind me of parts of the Guadalupe. We have put in where the creek crosses Ben Davis Rd. behind the Firewheel Mall before. The stretch between Lavon Dr./78 and Pleasant Valley Rd. is where you will find the ''whitewater'' including the 3-4 foot drop with optional ''easy way'' to the side. We continued down past Rowlett Rd. and 66 and took out @ Miller Rd. where you usually see people fishing on either side of the street. This strech of river is still flowing but as far scenery it is only trees, cyclists on the bike trails, and an old railroad bridge. You do pass a gun range (right at Pleasant Valley) and the water treatment plant (right after 66) both with their own unique sounds and SMELLS. We have gone all the way to Lake Ray Hubbard before but the stretch between Miller Rd. and the Lake is pretty boring and there is not much flow in the creek at that point. Travel time for us from Campbell Rd. to Miller Rd. was about 6 hours but we took our time, stoppe... |
Spring Creek River
| 17 miles away
Take springcreek from jupiter and keep going till it merges with rowlett creek and get out at rowlett rd. This entire stretch of water is best after rainstorms. Some areas have high speed runs and have great rapids. Go prepared you will get wet.... |
White Rock Creek
| 19 miles away
Not a bad run, a little shallow in places though. Take out point requires dragging boat up a steep incline. Also there are lots of man made obstacles to avoid, sever man hole covers protruding from the bottom. There are also 2 manmade water falls that will sneak up on you.... |
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