Red Lake is a longer drive on backroads so if we go there to paddle we wait for good conditions.    It is also a  popular fishing lake so there can be a lineup to launch or land during prime times.    For this reason I go to an informal launch on the south end of the lake.

A paddle around the entire lake is about 8.4 km so I often paddle about 5 km on either the north or the south end of the lake each time I head up there.

The north end of the lake has a lot of burned forest from the 2021 Sparks Lake Forest Fire.

This year the loop route was on the south end of the lake on a quiet weekday morning.

A Red Lake Page will be added to the website over the winter months.