Visited on 2/19/2018 - Jeff and I took advantage of the unusually warm weather we had during the three day holiday weekend to take in the beauty of some lakes in the Mother Lode Gold Country of the Sierra Mountain foothills area. We loaded up the truck camper for a long weekend of camping and on our third day on our way home we traveled northwest from Lake McClure to Woodward Reservoir located 8 miles north of Oakdale, California. Woodward Reservoir is at an elevation of 210 feet in the low, rolling, grassy foothills of the Central Valley. The lake has a surface area of 2,900 acres with 23 miles of shoreline. On the day that we arrived and took this picture we spoke to the Park Ranger at the Entrance gate and we asked why the lake level was so low. She stated that they recently experienced a problem with their dam and they had to drain down the lake in order to perform required maintenance to repair the dam. Yikes, I hope we get the rain to fill this lovely lake back up to it's full capacity soon.
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