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What a nice lake Sands Lake is. This lake is so wonderful. While you're here at Sands Lake you can take a hike along the Wylie Community Park Trail; Sands Lake is a tremendous place to visit for more than one day, Mc Elroy Mobile Home Park is a tremendous place to camp nearby. This lake is so wonderful. Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Rockwall, Texas is a pleasant location to get some rest, and since you might be in a lake visiting mood you can always check
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If the weather is magnificent here at Sands Lake, you can go for a hike along the Sister Grove Park Trail. You'll need more than a day to discover everything Sands Lake has to offer, you can camp at Collin Park RV Resort and Marina. A nice site for whitewater paddling near Sands Lake is Duck Creek, and you can have a great hiking adventure along the Trinity Trail. Not enough hours in a day to enjoy this site. After a long day | |
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outdoors Rockwall is a tremendous place to spend a night or two, and you'll meet a lot of people from Dallas -Fort Worth-Arlington here.
Lakes are wonderful; Emerson Lake is a lake that's right next door to Sands Lake; you can
run the rapids of Rowlett Creek. For the duration of the summertime, highs generally are in the 90's at Sands Lake, and through summer nights temperatures are in the 70's. For the duration of the winter this place gets highs in the
50's, and overnight lows in the 30's for Sands Lake. A typical amount of precipitation falls here at Sands Lake; the month with most of the rain is May, and January is the month with the least moisture.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.985
Longitude: -96.41111
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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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Duck Creek, Dallas CountyCounty, 17 miles away
Class II-III - 5 miles long (Beltline Road to Miller Road) |
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Spring Creek River, Collin Dallas CountyCounty, 20 miles away
Class II(III) - 3 miles long (Renner Road to Jupiter Road) |
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Rowlett Creek
| 13 miles away
...eep to carry a kayak down but easy enough to get down there and have someone slide the kayak down to you. The stretch of creek that goes through the golf course and up to Lavon Dr./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. an... |
Ivy Lake
 | 17 miles away
I want some info on Lake Ivy. I moved from Sioux City, IA. to Big Spring Texas one year ago. Would someone please help me find a place nearby to camp that is not desolate, lifeless, somewhere with trees, and FISH!!...I would like information on cabins or camp sites at Lake Ivy. Thank You... |
Spring Creek River
| 19 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.... |
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