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Best lake in the greater PNW?

Purple_Pills
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What is the best natural lake in the greater PNW (WA, OR, ID, western MT, & southern BC)

Best lake in the greater PNW? 19 votes

Crater Lake, OR
5%
YellowSnow 1 vote
Flathead Lake, MT
15%
dncbiak1Bad_MotherDucker 3 votes
Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
10%
PurpleThrobberBaseman 2 votes
Lake Chelan, WA
10%
El_KJoey 2 votes
Okanagan Lake, BC
5%
Canadawg 1 vote
Lake Pend Oreille, ID
5%
Fishpo31 1 vote
Harrison Lake, BC
0%
Shuswap Lake, BC
0%
Lake Washington, WA
10%
Mad_Sonhuskyhooligan 2 votes
other (name In comments)
36%
DerekJohnsonCFetters_Nacho_LoverRaceBannonBennyBeaverchuckseatownfunk1to392831weretaken 7 votes
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    Crater Lake, OR
    How do you define “best”? Crater Lake is the most breath taking rather easily. But I’m never swum or boated in it.

    I raced a row boat on Chelan against WSU and Gonzaga pussies.
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,169 Standard Supporter
    I'm not qualified to vote on this one, but Diablo Lake is pretty spectacular to look at.
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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    I define best as “all categories.” Crater Lake scores mega high in scenery, but way low elsewhere in my opinion. I am hoping “other” wins handily with cool suggestions.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    edited April 2023
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    Any of the big 3 in N Idaho are better than anything in WA or OR.

    Pend Oreille is mammoth and so deep the navy tested subs there. Sandpoint is better in the winter but a solid lake town.

    Lake CDA has the best parties from fancy CDA city in the north to redneck AF Harrison and Conklin Park in the south. 30 miles of booze. Fuck the Californians but most of them only show up for a week every summer.

    Priest is the most pristine but it’s hard to get to and you’re not doing just a day trip. Three days is required. Don’t fuck around near John Stocktons compound and definitely don’t ask for his autograph.

    The Throbber is biased toward Lake CDA but that’s more the personality of the people who have cabins there vs the other two. Hayden is where the beautiful people hang at the country club but the lake is too small. The two feed rivers are also a plus. It gets real remote real fast going up the CDA River and there’s usually Deliverance banjo music a few miles up the St Joe

    We know lakes in the inland northwest. There’s a fuck ton of them. Diamond, Badger, Williams, Newman, Liberty, Loon, Hauser, Twin, Sacheen, too many to list. Something like 76 in a 100 mile radius of Spokane. Or 100 in 76 miles or 69 at One Shot Charlie’s (which could happen)

    Lake Roosevelt should be on the list for WA lakes. Massive size which means it’s rarely crowded. And houseboats. Motherfucking houseboats just like the SEC.

    And for the true lake aficionados, Kootenay in BC is the shit.




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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Flathead Lake, MT
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    I'm not qualified to vote on this one, but Diablo Lake is pretty spectacular to look at.

    Not real, but it's spectacular
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,241 Founders Club
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    Lake Conner
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    Crater Lake, OR
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Any of the big 3 in N Idaho are better than anything in WA or OR.

    Pend Oreille is mammoth and so deep the navy tested subs there. Sandpoint is better in the winter but a solid lake town.

    Lake CDA has the best parties from fancy CDA city in the north to redneck AF Harrison and Conklin Park in the south. 30 miles of booze. Fuck the Californians but most of them only show up for a week every summer.

    Priest is the most pristine but it’s hard to get to and you’re not doing just a day trip. Three days is required. Don’t fuck around near John Stocktons compound and definitely don’t ask for his autograph.

    The Throbber is biased toward Lake CDA but that’s more the personality of the people who have cabins there vs the other two. Hayden is where the beautiful people hang at the country club but the lake is too small. The two feed rivers are also a plus. It gets real remote real fast going up the CDA River and there’s usually Deliverance banjo music a few miles up the St Joe

    We know lakes in the inland northwest. There’s a fuck ton of them. Diamond, Badger, Williams, Newman, Liberty, Loon, Hauser, Twin, Sacheen, too many to list. Something like 76 in a 100 mile radius of Spokane. Or 100 in 76 miles or 69 at One Shot Charlie’s (which could happen)

    Lake Roosevelt should be on the list for WA lakes. Massive size which means it’s rarely crowded. And houseboats. Motherfucking houseboats just like the SEC.

    And for the true lake aficionados, Kootenay in BC is the shit.




    We had some family frens who had a cabin on Priest Lake. The mom was a former Olympic Medalist in skiing. Spent 3 days there. Just gorgeous. I've been fairly far un Lake CDA and I get the appeal.

    Crater Lake still crushes them all in terms of scenic value but yeah @Purple_Pills it's just not much in the way of recreational usage.

    I'd probably be inclined to say Flathead but I haven't spent much time there but it feels like the the Lake Tahoe of Montana.

    If I had in Portage Bay and Lake Union into Lake Washington that the emotional ties are the strongest. I have more hours logged on those waters than the rest of this place combined. And (clean era) Lake WA is easily the best urban lake in the US.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    Crater Lake, OR
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Any of the big 3 in N Idaho are better than anything in WA or OR.

    Pend Oreille is mammoth and so deep the navy tested subs there. Sandpoint is better in the winter but a solid lake town.

    Lake CDA has the best parties from fancy CDA city in the north to redneck AF Harrison and Conklin Park in the south. 30 miles of booze. Fuck the Californians but most of them only show up for a week every summer.

    Priest is the most pristine but it’s hard to get to and you’re not doing just a day trip. Three days is required. Don’t fuck around near John Stocktons compound and definitely don’t ask for his autograph.

    The Throbber is biased toward Lake CDA but that’s more the personality of the people who have cabins there vs the other two. Hayden is where the beautiful people hang at the country club but the lake is too small. The two feed rivers are also a plus. It gets real remote real fast going up the CDA River and there’s usually Deliverance banjo music a few miles up the St Joe

    We know lakes in the inland northwest. There’s a fuck ton of them. Diamond, Badger, Williams, Newman, Liberty, Loon, Hauser, Twin, Sacheen, too many to list. Something like 76 in a 100 mile radius of Spokane. Or 100 in 76 miles or 69 at One Shot Charlie’s (which could happen)

    Lake Roosevelt should be on the list for WA lakes. Massive size which means it’s rarely crowded. And houseboats. Motherfucking houseboats just like the SEC.

    And for the true lake aficionados, Kootenay in BC is the shit.




    Elk Lake (my home lake these days) is no slouch by it's a puddle compared to the big lakes on this list.


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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,624
    Lake Pend Oreille, ID
    Spent a lot of time in Bayview in the 90’s, Pend Oreille is my fave.
    CdA #2, and I liked Okanogan as well, but I haven’t been to it in a long tim…
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
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    Not qualified, and my favorite lakes are all small and have pretty kick ass trout fishing which is all that really matters to me.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    Crater Lake, OR
    chuck said:

    Not qualified, and my favorite lakes are all small and have pretty kick ass trout fishing which is all that really matters to me.

    Free Pub for me here! But fuck if Snow isn't one of the most crowded hiking trails in the world.


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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    Fishpo31 said:

    Spent a lot of time in Bayview in the 90’s, Pend Oreille is my fave.
    CdA #2, and I liked Okanogan as well, but I haven’t been to it in a long tim…

    Bayview is cool as shit. The Monarchs rising out of Lake Pend Oreille is breathtaking.

    Spent a bunch of time on Hayden during college/young adulthood. Hot ass rich bitches there. Made up for Rev Butlers compound being just up the road. Those pesky Aryans.



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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    edited April 2023
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    No love for Soap or Moses?!?

    Grant County haters. I mean, it’s deserved but still.

    Got laid in Ephrata once. Which was nice.

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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,241 Founders Club
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    I’m also a big fan of Liberty Lake.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    I’m also a big fan of Liberty Lake.

    Nice asses there. Lot of Mormons also.

    I like to say Cocolalla -just north of Athol.

    I like to say Athol too.


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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,241 Founders Club
    Lake Chelan, WA
    Chelan is my favorite to visit but my favorite is Clear Lake in Skagit county for personal reasons
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
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    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.

    Northwest means northwest section of the USA which British Columbia is not. British Columbia is in the southwest of Canada. You fucking Canucks and your stolen Northwest valor. @Canadawg @CanadianDAWG @CanadianCuck

    FO, G

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    edited April 2023
    Crater Lake, OR
    PurpleThrobber said:

    No love for Soap or Moses?!?

    Grant County haters. I mean, it’s deserved but still.

    Got laid in Ephrata once. Which was nice.

    Hence, @PurpleThrobber why no one is showing up for the Battle of Vantage.
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,922 Swaye's Wigwam
    Lake Washington, WA
    Had to go with home court advantage. East to get to. Lots of access. Greatest Setting. Blue Angels in August. First airplanes to circumnavigate the globe took off and landed on its shores.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    edited April 2023
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    BennyBeaver said:

    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.

    Northwest means northwest section of the USA which British Columbia is not. British Columbia is in the southwest of Canada. You fucking Canucks and your stolen Northwest valor. @Canadawg @CanadianDAWG @CanadianCuck

    FO, G

    Your definition is faggotry.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    Lake Coeur d’Alene, ID
    YellowSnow said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    No love for Soap or Moses?!?

    Grant County haters. I mean, it’s deserved but still.

    Got laid in Ephrata once. Which was nice.

    Hence, @PurpleThrobber why no one is showing up for the Battle of Vantage.
    The Throbber will be doing all the pitching if they do.
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  • Canadawg
    Canadawg Member Posts: 5,264
    Okanagan Lake, BC
    BennyBeaver said:

    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.

    Northwest means northwest section of the USA which British Columbia is not. British Columbia is in the southwest of Canada. You fucking Canucks and your stolen Northwest valor. @Canadawg @CanadianDAWG @CanadianCuck

    FO, G




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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
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    Canadawg said:

    BennyBeaver said:

    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.

    Northwest means northwest section of the USA which British Columbia is not. British Columbia is in the southwest of Canada. You fucking Canucks and your stolen Northwest valor. @Canadawg @CanadianDAWG @CanadianCuck

    FO, G




    Wikipedia is your source?

    Like I said it’s me.

    But you canucks can stop with the NW stuff…look a fucking map for christs sake.
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,624
    Lake Pend Oreille, ID
    Canadawg said:

    BennyBeaver said:

    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.

    Northwest means northwest section of the USA which British Columbia is not. British Columbia is in the southwest of Canada. You fucking Canucks and your stolen Northwest valor. @Canadawg @CanadianDAWG @CanadianCuck

    FO, G




    Chinned for use of “Bugs Bunny Change Up”…
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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    BennyBeaver said:

    This probably won’t come as a big shock to most of you, but I’m kind of a pendant when it comes to the definition of Pacific northwest.

    Pacific means bordering the Pacific Ocean, which Montana, and Idaho do not.


    You fucking suck at knowledge of American history and why this whole region is called the Pacific Northwest.

    Quick hint: where is Northwestern University located? We weren’t the USA’s first “northwest,” hence the name.

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