- A lake in the watercourse of Lacamas Creek in Lacamas Regional Park in Clark County, Washington.
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- Lacamas_Trail_Map.pdf (clark.wa.gov)
Lacamas Lake Park hosts a 6-mile network of scenic hiking and cycling trails, passing dense forest, spectacular waterfalls, Round Lake and Lacamas Creek. Many areas are excellent for bird-watching, and the April blooming of the Camas Lilies are an annual feature. Upland forests support a variety of wildlife, including deer, raccoon, beaver, osprey, bald eagles and many others. Round Lake is an attraction for shing, and is stocked with a mixture of bass, bluegill and perch. Non-motorized boating only is allowed on Round Lake.
- Lacamas Lake (OregonHikers.org)
Lacamas Lake, along with its neighbor, Round Lake, fills a depression carved by the ice age Bretz (Missoula) Floods at the end of the last ice age. Even though the lake is 180 feet above the Columbia River channel down which the floods roared, the roiling spate was deeper than that and cut across the landscape here to create a new channel. In the 1880s, two dams were built at Round Lake, which also raised the water level in Lacamas Lake. A few years later, a ditch was dug, using Chinese workers, to channel water from the lake to the Camas paper mill. In the decades that followed, further improvements were made to this system which fed the water needs of the paper mill.
- Round Lake Dock (OregonHikers.org)
At first glance, the Round Lake Dock seems utterly purposeless. At about 10 feet long and standing in water inches deep, it’s not much of a place to show up in a boat. As a romantic spot, however… Well, I’ll let you take your special someone and find out for yourself.
- Lacamas Creek Loop Hike (OregonHikers.org)
A forest oasis in a rapidly developing suburban setting, Lacamas Regional Park offers a fascinating sampling of landforms and habitats. At the end of the last Ice Age, over 12,000 years ago, a series of massive floods (the Missoula or Bretz Floods) swept down the Columbia River and scoured the landscape, creating exposed rock scablands and shallow depressions. This small park boasts no fewer than three waterfalls, including the pockmarked bench at the Potholes, a couple of lakes, scablands supporting oaks and camas lilies, and a deep forest dominated by maple and Douglas-fir. This loop begins on 3rd Avenue, but you can also start at Round Lake and include the Round Lake Loop Hike in the excursion. The itinerary includes a diversion to seasonal Woodburn Falls, which becomes dry during the summer but which is also best avoided when trails are extremely muddy.
- Mill Ditch to Round Lake Hike (OregonHikers.org)
The Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill, with its broad columns of steam slowly billowing skyward, is the dominant feature of the small city of Camas. The town’s industrial history goes back a long way - to the first sawmills of the 1850s. In 1884, Henry Pittock’s LaCamas Colony Company used Chinese laborers to construct a 7,000-foot ditch that would carry water from Round Lake to its new mill on the site of the current Georgia-Pacific operation. This aqueduct is still in operation and serving its original purpose; indeed, hikers have to chance to walk much of the ditch as well as connect to its source at Mill Pond in Lacamas Park, where they can also make use of a much wider network of trails.
- Round Lake Loop Hike (OregonHikers.org)
Round Lake, like its larger neighbor Lacamas Lake, is a child of the Missoula Floods, a depression carved when ice dams collapsed somewhere in northern Montana over 12,000 years ago and swept down through the Columbia River valley. The floods were not a single event but occurred at least 40 times over a period of 2,000 years. A “Missoula boulder,” perhaps rafted down the cataclysmic spate on a floe of ice, sits at the south end of Round Lake…
Washington Trails Association
- Lacamas Park - Round Lake to Lower Falls (wta.org)
Lacamas Park is a surprising swatch of forest between Camas and Washougal where you can easily take time out to relax and enjoy nature. The park has over six miles of trails, with both wide-hard surfaced paths and more primitive dirt tracks. This loop hike combines both types to give you the optimum experience while exploring a lake, creek, and two waterfalls. There is also an optional side trip to visit the Lily Fields, which are infused with purple camas blossoms from mid-April to mid-May. Although there are some heart-thumping uphill sections, the hike is generally easy and appropriate for reasonably fit people of all ages.
- Round Lake (Clark County, Washington) (Wikipedia)
Round Lake is a small lake in Camas, Washington, U.S. The lake is connected at its north-west tip to Lacamas Lake and is accessed from Lacamas Park. The park includes a trail that goes entirely around Round Lake, and across the approximately 75-foot (23 m) dam that controls the level of Lacamas Lake and Round Lake. The lake has rainbow trout, brown trout, bluegill and smallmouth bass.