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If you need a place to stay Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites MESQUITE is a great choice, and you can stay the night at Wagonwheel Mobile Home Park. This lake is so wonderful. Here at Lucas Lake you'll almost certainly meet some people from Dallas -Fort Worth-Arlington, and why not take a refreshing hike along the Bob Woodruff Trail. All through the long summer days, highs mostly are in the 90's at Lucas Lake while overnight lows are commonly in the 70's.
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| | The winter comes with highs in the 50's, and after the sun is down through the wintertime temperatures at Lucas Lake dip into the 30's. 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 perfect place for that, and you don’t have to go far from Lucas Lake to observe the water at Lucas Lake Dam.
What a place this is for outdoors folks. Lawrence Lake is a nearby lake that you could take a look | |
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at; after a long day outdoors La Quinta Inn Balch Springs is a nice place to spend a night or two. Get your heart beating on the fine whitewater of Duck Creek, and hiking is a popular thing to do around Lucas Lake; Wylie Community
Park Trail is a perfect local trail.
This lake is so wonderful. The Trinity Trail offers hiking at its best, and if you're here, you could also go to scenic Tosch Lake. You can run the rapids of Rowlett Creek near Lucas Lake;
Mesquite Golf Course is a golf course nearby. The annual rainfall here at Lucas Lake is about average; May is the wettest month with most rain; January is when it's the driest.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.73
Longitude: -96.565
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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
...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, stopped for a packed lunch, and fished some ... |
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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