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Opal Lake is always a pleasure to visit. This lake is so wonderful. Really great skiing awaits you at Stephens Pass; Roslyn Inns is a magnificent place to get some rest. Take a hike on the Jolly Mountain Lookout Trail; there are some splendid whitewater spots on Waptus River. This site, the Northern Cascade Range, has so much outdoors fun things. Opal Lake is right by the Lake Michael Trail, and obviously Big Boulder Creek flows through this area.
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| | lake is so wonderful. There's so much to do here at Opal Lake that you need to camp here for a while, Salmon La Sac - Wenatchee National Forest is a splendid site for that, and there's no such thing as a bad day of skiing at nearby Snoqualmie. Man, is there a heap of amusing things to do near Opal Lake. Get yourself into a kayak and hit Cle Elum River, and the view of Davis Peak is picturesque.
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Creek Campground is a great local campground. Lakes? Sure, Michael Lake is nearby. If you have a thing about the outdoors you'll have a thing about it here in the Northern Cascade Range. Dry warm beds await you at Suncadia Resort,
and why not take a refreshing hike along the Davis Peak Lookout Trail. Opal Lake is a beautiful lake in the Northern Cascade Range.
The warmest time of the year at Opal Lake arrives with high temperatures in the 60's, and the
overnight is quite colder of course, mostly in the 40's. The cold days of the wintertime come with highs in the 20's while the cold winter nights at Opal Lake are in the 10's. Opal Lake gets a great deal of water; January is the wettest month with most snow; the driest of the months is July.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 47.45389
Longitude: -121.0753
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| These outdoors activities are available near Opal Lake. |
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| | Hiking Trails Near Opal Lake:
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Lake Michael Trail, Kittitas County, 3 miles away
20 hiking miles, 2568 feet elevation difference |
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Snoqualmie, Washington, 24 miles away
1100 vertical feet |
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Alpental, Washington, 24 miles away
2280 vertical feet |
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Cle Elum River, Kittitas CountyCounty, 1 miles away
Class IV-V - 8.5 miles long (Scatter Creek to Salmon La Sac Creek) |
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Waptus River, Kittitas CountyCounty, 3 miles away
Class II-III+(IV) - 4 miles long (Waptus Lake trail to Salmon La Sac) |
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Cooper River, Kittitas CountyCounty, 4 miles away
Class IV-V - 1.5 miles long (Waterfall to Cle Elum River) |
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13 miles away
