Beaver Lake

In late September, we paddled Beaver Lake near Lac La Biche. I had hopped to launch from the beach in the provincial campground (pink arrow) of the provincial group camping area (orange arrow) but both were closed, seemingly for the season.

We ended up launching from the public launch at Holowachuk Estates (blue arrow). Dock, ramp, small beach, lots of parking, and washrooms. It was reasonably rough because of a south wind so we went around the west side of the lake.

Almost immediately, we passed the launch at Young's Beach (green arrow) which was also very nice.

Waning daylight and being tired from a big paddle earlier that day meant we only got around the northern basin. The lake is huge and it looks like there is a launch on the southern end of the lake, which is where I would try next time.

We had a very nice paddle once we got out of the wind a bit. The lake is lovely, reasonably clean (a bit weedy in places), and was quiet.

Paddling near sunset with only a five-minute drive back to our hotel in Lac La Biche was nice.

This wasn't my favourite lake from this trip, but it was very nice and I'd definitely go back if I was in the area.