Shippagew Lake – Site 2

This is a top ten all time site for me. It’s a beautiful spot on a beautiful lake at the end of a beau … well, at the end of a nice river. Shippagew has two sites, but only one permit available. If you book this lake then you’re effectively booking this site. And you should book this site. Spread across a long, wide point on Shippagew’s east side, this is an open space with plenty of room to settle in. There terrain is flat and mostly free of obstacles (minus the occasional root and rock). The fire pit area is more or less in the middle of the site and includes a very nice bench set up and a well constructed fire pit. The view from the pit to the water is good in almost every direction. The site is dotted with pine (and other trees, but the only two trees I can recognize are pine and maple. Christmas trees too, I suppose). It’s enough coverage that you don’t feel completely exposed, but not enough to make you feel in any way hemmed in. The western exposure gets great afternoon sun (honestly, almost too much afternoon sun) and the sunset views are great. The site has multiple spots to pull up your canoe, including a shelf of rock along the west side and a more gradually sloping spot on the east side. The swimming here is good as well. The west side of the point is all rocky shore with plenty of places to slip in. The underwater terrain is free of obstacles as far as your canoe approach is concerned, but rocky enough to make for some uneven footing if you’re trying to wade in.

Man, that’s a long wall of text to basically say that this site is great.