Visited on 5/17/2018, Jeff and our two Chocolate Labradors, Summer and Skye joined me on a business trip to give Drinking Water examinations in the Central Valley of California. We traveled in the Central Valley foothills east of Fresno to an elevation of 961 feet above sea level to Pine Flat Lake. We stayed in the Island Park Campground Site #49 with a view of the boat ramp and some of the lake. Next time we want to camp right on the lake at campsite #30. Pine Flat Lake rests among beautiful oak and pine covered hills. Pine Flat has a shoreline that is 20 miles long and the lake was completely full of water. This reservoir is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern Fresno County, California on the western north-south border to the Sierra- and Sequoia National Forests, about 30 miles east of Fresno. The lake is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and is open to boaters, campers & hikers.
The lake was formed by the construction of Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River in 1954 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and is a large reservoir that totals 5,970 acres in size. Although primarily designed for flood control, the project also provides for irrigation and groundwater recharge, recreation, and with the completion in 1984 of the Jeff L. Taylor Pine Flat Power Plant, generation of hydroelectric power.
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