Herb and Gun Lakes Route

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Difficulty Ratings

Distance: 10 km
Duration : 2 days
Loop Trip : yes
 
River Travel : intermediate
Lake Travel : intermediate
Portaging : Easy
Remoteness : novice

Portage Info

Maps Required

No. of Portages : 4
Total Length: 468 m
Average Length: 117 m
Longest Portage : 172 m
 


Other Maps
Frost Centre Adventure Map by Chrismar Mapping Services

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Route Description

Turn off Hwy 35 onto Kawagama Road (No. 8) just north of Dorset
At first junction, turn right onto No. 8 (continuation of Kawagama Road)
Turn right when road forks - approx 11 km down road (just past Minden Bay) turn right on a dirt road. This dirt road is 2.2 km west of Deer Bay Road.
South to end of Herb Lake
Liftover at beaver dam into pond
To southwest corner of pond
Liftover beaver dam into Black River
P 172 m L around falls
Black River for 0.5 km
P 62 m R around Brandy Falls
Black River into Gun Lake
Return via. same route.
 

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Submitted by:  Hans         on 2008-06-18

How can we be sure to get a camp site when we arrive? Prefer Gun Lake

Submitted by:  Len Kelly         on 2009-03-01

Great week-end trip for a family. One complicatiion- all of these sites used to be free ( crown land part of the Leslie Frost Centre). Now they are managed by Haliburton Highlands Watertrail Inc. You must pay a fee and they are regularly patrolled.0w15knq

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