The Recreation Site Offers 5 Campsites with Picnic Tables, Pit Toilets and a Boat Launch

This long deep scenic lake is popular with fisherman looking to catch rainbow, lake and bull trout. The depth of the lake keeps the water cool year round enabling good fishing through much of the season.

The recreation site offers 5 campsites with picnic tables, pit toilets and a boat launch.

I first heard about this lake through a friend who told me it’s her favorite place to hunt for geodes. What is a geode you ask? They are boring looking egg shaped rocks that when split in two reveal amazing looking mineral formations.

The clear water near the shoreline is a great place to hunt for geodes, so this summer unleashes your inner rock hound and go kayaking at Dunn Lake.

Fun Geode Facts:

·  The name geode comes from the Greek word “geode” meaning “earthlike.

·  Scientists are not completely sure of how geodes form.

·  Geodes may not always be dry inside. When broken open, water from the time the geodes developed may be found.

·  All geodes are unique when it comes to the color and orientation of the inside.

·  Quartz crystals that are clear are the most common.

·  Not all geodes that are sold are naturally colored. Geodes are sometimes cut into slices and artificially dyed.

·  Geodes can be a couple inches or several feet in size.

·  It can take hundreds of millions of years for the space inside a geode to be filled, and many geodes remain partly hollow.

·  A geode which is completely filled with crystals is called a nodule. Agate-filled nodules are called thunder eggs.

HOW TO GET THERE – Travel north from the city of Kamloops on Hwy. #5 (Yellowhead Hwy.) to the community of Clearwater. At Clearwater turn right at the Wells Grey Inn in Clearwater. There is a sign on the right hand side of the highway at Clearwater pointing East directing to Dunn Lake Road. Follow Dunn Lake Road to Dunn Lake. A quicker alternate route is via the Little Fort Ferry over the North Thompson River. The Dunn Lake Recreation Site entrance is at the junction of Winpass Road and Dunn Lake Road.