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A visit to Burrus Lake is always a good idea. You just can't envision the amount of outdoors enjoyable stuff the area next to Burrus Lake has to offer. There's so much to do here at Burrus Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Lake Anna State Park is a great location for that. Dry warm beds await you at Red Carpet Inn Orange; there are other spots here than Burrus Lake, for example House Lake. This lake is so wonderful. Burrus Lake is great enough to spend
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| | more than a day at, Cedar Mountain Campground is a great local campground, and paddling on Hughes River and Hazel River is so much fun.
For the period of the days of summer at Burrus Lake temperatures are regularly in the 80's. Summer overnight lows drop down to the 60's. All through the winter highs are frequently in the 40's, and overnight lows in the 20's for Burrus Lake. If you need a location to stay Holiday Inn Express Orange, Va is a perfect choice, | |
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and Burrus Dam is a charming place. Lakes are such serene places, why not visit Linden Pond next to Burrus Lake, and Robinson River has a brilliant whitewater paddling spot nearby.
Burrus Lake is a wet location that gets a good deal of rainfall; May is when you get the most rain here, and January meanwhile is the driest month.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 38.27667
Longitude: -78.01333
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Robinson River, Madison CountyCounty, 16 miles away
Class II+ - 19 miles long (Syria to Locust Dale) |
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Rappahannock River, Fauquier/ Culpeper CountyCounty, 19 miles away
Class II+ - 4.5 miles long (Remington to Kellys Ford) |
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Robinson River
| 16 miles away
this is a fun stretch of whitewater. i have run numerous times and have enjoyed it every time i would recomend it for anyone. it has a few class 2-3 ledges that are lots of fun and uncountable gravel bars and small rock gardens....near the end there is a nice way to end your trip with a swimming hole complete with a rope swing and all!!!!... |
Whitlock Millpond
 | 16 miles away
Whitlock Millpond (very old maps show it as Hancock's Mill Pond) used to be a beautiful place. It was hard to get to and, as a result, I only visited once when I went fishing there as a child with my father and my grandfather (early- to mid-1960s). It was a wild, snaky place. My grandfather, who lived nearby, told me the dam which fed the abandoned mill had been built by slaves using stone quarried nearby.
Sadly, the dam was breached and the remains of the mill were swept away by the flooding that accompanied Hurricane Camille in 1968. Since then, what was the pond has filled with trees and only a small creek remains. In 2006 I tried to get over to where the remains of the dam are, but the owner of the land I had to cross just looked at me like I had lost my mind. I guess it is wilder and snakier than ever now.... |
Hughes River and Hazel River
| 17 miles away
If you are paddling the hazel this is a heads up when taking out at the low water bridge on monument mills road. The property owners there are real not so friendly. They think they own the river itself. Just a heads up....Some B and B's are near the put-in and take-out for the Hughes. La Bella Terra at 605 and 606 in Madison County is a weekend B and B in season (May-September)and near the take out. It also offers farmhouse dining on Sat. 540 547 2317.... |
Christopher Run Campground
 | 18 miles away
August is not a wet month in this area! It tends to be drought time in Aug. and median temps are in the 90's not 80's. Great spot.... |
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