ROUTES/PORTAGES FROM PADDLE LAKE:
To Canoe Lake: Paddle In
Paddle Lake
Gunflint Ranger District
Paddle Lake gets its name because it resembles the shape of a canoe paddle blade (and because the lake adjoins Canoe Lake to the east).
The Crocodile River enters Paddle Lake from Canoe Lake and flows out along its northeastern shoreline. The river flows over Johnson Falls about one mile downstream of Paddle Lake.
There are no routes from Paddle Lake. The stream (Crocodile River) between Paddle Lake and Canoe Lake is an interesting place to visit, being a short stretch of clear, shallow river with a firm bottom that is easy to walk. A steep hill rises about 200 feet above the southwest corner of the lake, creating a steep divide between Paddle Lake and Alder Lake. A road used to run along the south edge of this hill, on the Alder Lake side of it.
If fishing is your game, this lake contains good numbers of northern pike and walleye.
Exploring Paddle Lake
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Looking west across much of Paddle Lake from where the Crocodile River flows in coming from Canoe Lake.
This is a clockwise circumnavigation of the shoreline of Paddle Lake. Paddle begins and ends from where the creek flows in from Canoe Lake.
View eastward from near the western end of Paddle Lake.
