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Battle Ground Lake State Park
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Battle Ground Lake State Park

east of Battle Ground, Washington
visited 1 January 2021
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Battle Ground Lake State Park is a quiet retreat from the busy-ness that surrounds the Portland/Vancouver metropolis. Camp, hike, ride your horse, fish, … whatever it is that helps you relax, you can do it here.

I spent a couple hours hiking on the trails that surround the park’s namesake lake and barely saw another soul, aside from a few people riding their horses.

A large fallen tree with an upturned root ball lies along the shore of a still lake, its dark silhouette dominating the foreground as mist drifts over a dense evergreen forest across the water under a heavy gray overcast sky. Reeds and grasses poke up from the glassy water, which reflects the clouds and trees.

Not a bad way to welcome in the new year.

Some day I shall have to return to check out the rental cabins.

A calm green lake bordered by a dense evergreen forest under an overcast gray sky, with wisps of mist drifting among the trees and concentric ripples spreading across the still water in the foreground.
A close-up of a fallen, charred log with blackened wet bark, draped on both sides by bright green moss and dotted with small pale, jelly-like fungi, in a damp forest at Battle Ground Lake State Park, Washington.
The weathered, moss-covered base of a large tree with a hollow opening sits at the edge of murky greenish-brown lake water dimpled by concentric ripples from falling raindrops. Fallen conifer needles and debris cling to the bark at the waterline.
A weathered, twisted log with gnarled, moss-flecked bark lies partly submerged along the edge of a shallow pond, its root end reaching into muddy water where grasses and reeds grow and overhanging trees are reflected on the calm surface.
Exposed, gnarled tree roots spread across bare reddish-brown soil at the base of moss-covered conifers in a misty evergreen forest, with ferns and green undergrowth visible in the background along a dirt trail.
A dirt hiking trail winds through a dense evergreen forest of moss-covered conifers, with ferns and green undergrowth lining the path and a calm green lake visible through the trees to the left.
A still lake with mirror-like water seen from a muddy, leaf-strewn shoreline framed by tall grasses, reeds, and moss-covered rocks, with a dense evergreen forest and small park buildings along the far shore under overcast light.
A calm lake ringed by dense evergreen forest under an overcast gray sky, with floating logs breaking the surface and raindrop ripples in the still water that mirrors the trees. Bare branches hang into the frame at the top edge.
A close-up of a tree trunk thickly carpeted with vibrant green moss and patches of pale lichen, with reddish-brown bark showing through on the right side.

The eagles seemed to enjoy the park, too:

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