Английская Википедия:Horseshoe Cienega Lake

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Horseshoe Cienega Lake is a lake in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona. It is one of the area's most popular fishing lakes due to its productivity and convenience to the main highway State Route 260. The lake is in Apache County. As the lake is on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, permits must be acquired in nearby Hon-Dah for all activities at the lake including fishing, camping and hiking.[1]

Location

Horseshoe Cienega Lake sits at Шаблон:Convert on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The lake turnoff is approximately Шаблон:Convert from Pinetop-Lakeside in the west and approximately Шаблон:Convert from Eagar to the east. The main parking area and boat launch are about a mile (1.6 km) south of State Route 260, and are accessed by a well-maintained dirt road. Unlike many of the high-altitude White Mountain lakes, Horseshoe Cienega Lake is accessible year-round. Ice fishing is possible when the lake freezes over, typically from late-November until mid-April.[2] The average high temperature at the lake in January is Шаблон:Convert compared to an average high of Шаблон:Convert in July while the average low temperature in January is Шаблон:Convert compared to average low of Шаблон:Convert in July.

Description

The lake was created by damming Horseshoe Creek in the early 1960s. It has a Шаблон:Convert surface area, with an average depth of Шаблон:Convert. The lake was briefly drained in the winter of 1990–91.[2] The forest surrounding the south shore of the lake contains around 70 primitive campsites with numerous pit toilets, picnic tables and potable water faucets. A convenience store that sold permits, groceries, bait and rental boats was consistently open from Memorial Day to Labor Day as recently as the 1990s;[2] the store now appears to open only sporadically, and it is unclear whether it has been abandoned altogether. The lake also once held the distinction of having produced the state record brown trout of 16 pounds, 7 ounces and nearly 30 inches long;[2] this record was broken in 1999 by a brown trout caught in Reservation Lake.[3]

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