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There's so much to do here at Smith Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Shady Pines RV Park and Campground is a good site for that, and at Smith Lake you always meet someone from Jacksonville. For the period of the warm months highs here at Smith Lake reach the 90's with overnight lows in the 70's. Highs throughout the winter are commonly in the 50's, and overnight lows during the wintertime for Smith Lake tend to be in the 30's. This lake is so
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| | wonderful. The Nature Trail is a great hiking trail near Smith Lake, and if you need a spot to stay Americas Best Value Inn-Jacksonville is a glorious choice.
If the weather is great here at Smith Lake, you can go for a hike along the Mount Hope Tract Trail; you'll stumble on a wonderful lake called Hollywood Lake. Lakes are such calm spots, why not check out Hollywood Club Lake in the vicinity of Smith Lake; naturally Brushy Creek is a pretty stream that is | |
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worth a visit. On a magnificent day at Smith Lake you can take a hike along the Jim Hogg State Historical Park Trail, and a brilliant close by hotel is Holiday Inn Express JACKSONVILLE.
The amount of precipitation that falls at
Smith Lake is close to the national average; the wettest month of the year is ordinarily May, that's the one that rains the most, and August on the other hand is the driest. Be careful coming to Smith Lake, you might not ever want
to go home again. Smith Lake is brilliant enough to spend more than a day at, Castle on the Lake Inn and RV Resort is a brilliant local campground, and glide down the rapids of Neches River in a kayak. This lake is so wonderful. Rocky
Point is pretty and can be seen from Smith Lake; Hollywood Club Lake Dam is an exciting thing to check out.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.01667
Longitude: -95.23389
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Neches River, Anderson Cherokee CountyCounty, 14 miles away
Class II+ - 3 miles long (Lake Palestine to US 175) |
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Neches River
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...s is a totally 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 t... |
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