A View of Hume Lake - Kings Canyon National Park - California

by Bruce Friedman

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A View of Hume Lake - Kings Canyon National Park - California

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Bruce Friedman

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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A view of Hume Lake from above. Hume Lake is a great area to hike around, especially if you have dogs.

More from Wikipedia:
Hume Lake is an artificial lake in the Sequoia National Forest of Fresno County, California, adjacent to the unincorporated community of Hume. It is on Tenmile Creek, which flows into the Kings River. The surface elevation of the lake is 1,585 m. It is accessible from California Route 180, via Forest Service road 30, and is about 50 mi east of Fresno, not far from the west entrance to Kings Canyon National Park.

The 87-acre lake lies behind the world's first concrete reinforced multiple arch dam, designed by John S. Eastwood and constructed in 1908 by the Hume-Bennett Lumber Company. During lumber operations, the lake stored logs for an adjacent mill and supplied water for a flume used to transport the cut lumber to Sanger, California.

Since the cessation of logging in 1924, Hume Lake's identity has shifted from being an industrial implement to a recreational resource.

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