Woods Lake
Southern Region • Southern Region
Woods Lake is an early Silver Lake Wilderness destination on the Northville-Placid Trail, useful for low-key hiking, camping, and backpacking access.
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Woods Lake
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Woods Lake is an accessible early destination in the Silver Lake Wilderness, reached from the Benson Road section of the Northville-Placid Trail. It is not a major summit or viewpoint hike; its value is the lake setting, quiet forest, and designated campsite context near the start of this wilderness section. Hikers can use it as a short pond-style outing from Benson Road, as an easy backpacking objective, or as the first landmark on a longer NPT section hike toward Rock Lake, Silver Lake, Mud Lake, and Whitehouse.