Bonny Lakes Explained

Bonny Lakes
Coords:45.1835°N -117.161°W[1]
Inflow:Big Sheep Creek
Outflow:Big Sheep Creek
Basin Countries:United States
Length:West Lake: 195yd East Lake: 189yd
Width:West Lake: 189yd East Lake: 80yd
Depth:West Lake: 6feet East Lake: 4feet
Elevation:7840feet
Image Bathymetry:Bonny_lake_west.jpg
Caption Bathymetry:The more western of the two lakes
Alt Bathymetry:View of western lake
Pushpin Map:Oregon#USA
Pushpin Map Alt:Location of Bonny Lakes in Oregon, USA.

Bonny Lakes are two small, shallow, mountain ponds located in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of Northeastern Oregon, United States. They are positioned in a large meadow on Aneroid Mountain known as Bonny Lakes basin,[2] which is about two miles east of Dollar Lake.[3] Together they are listed as the 13th highest lake in the Eagle Cap Wilderness at 7,840 ft (2,390 m).[4]

Trail

Bonny Lakes can be accessed by either the Wallowa Lake Trailhead (10 miles of travel) or the Tenderfoot Trailhead (3.5 miles of travel).[5] The lakes lie on Trail 1802.

See also

Notes and References

  1. 1138432 . Bonny Lakes . 2008-11-21 .
  2. 3263. Petes Point. 2009-03-03.
  3. Book: Barstad, Frank. Hiking Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness. 2002. Morris Book Publishing.
  4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20080917020610/http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/w-w/recreation/wilderness/elevations-ecw.shtml. 2008-09-17. Elevations of Points Near Eagle Cap Wilderness. 2008-11-24. Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. U.S. Forest Service.
  5. Web site: Bonny Lake Panorama . https://web.archive.org/web/20080705093527/http://www.josephoregon.com/panofiles/java_panos/bonny_lk_pano.htm . 2008-07-05. 2009-03-03.