Millwood Lake

Reviewed by Guest on January 14, 2009

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Go visit! what a great area, lots to do here and a number of different sites depending on what part of the lake or river you choose to visit. My favorite is White cliffs campsite and landing, this site is off Little River, the tributary to Millwood lake. This fairly wide and well marked river will give you access to some of the best fishing millwood has to offer, in the way of sloughs and old river oxbows. Fair warning: like the name states there are a lot of stumps off the river, maintain idle speed and you'll be fine. Head north for more oxbows and slough, south for a lot of the same but eventually you will hit the main lake. the lake is marked with trails consisting of telephone poles about every 50 yards apart, only venture off these trails at idle speed. Behind (to the east) the campsite is a unique area where the campsite gets its name. These chalk cliffs (white in color) can be accessed by trails directly opposite the river from the third campsite from the entrance. If you are brave enough to scale the debris field below these cliffs you can find fossils of old sea shells and sharks teeth which can be chiseled out of the cliffs. Another area of interest here, if memory severs me correct is an area just a few hundred feet from the entrance of the site called "lovers leap", in all it is just a look out over the flood plane, but may be a good place to catch a sunset. Oddly enough what you can't see here is a old (1970's?) car, whose rusted out body lay at the bottom of the cliff. Story has it the car was stolen and was ditched here, on a sunny day the chrome bumpers are hard to miss from the river! For the 4 wheeling enthusiast there are a few trails (wide enough for a truck) at the south end of the campsite) not sure how far they travel, but i do know they climb the electrical and gas highlines that run though the area.
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