Surrounded by pine forests, Bass Lake is also popular for hiking and mountain biking. Located 3.5 hours’ drive east of San Francisco and an hour north of Fresno, the lake is also a magnet for water sports enthusiasts: water skiing, wakeboarding, and kayaking are all on the menu here, as is swimming in the lovely, shallow coves. Most fishers are on the hunt for largemouth bass, crappie, and striped bass.Regarded as one of the best fishing lakes in the Sierra Nevada, five-mile-long Bass Lake attracts anglers from all over California for its abundance of Kokanee salmon, trout, and catfish. You’ll find a number of boat rental companies around the area, as well as chartered fishing boats. Fishingįishing tournaments on Lake Anna start in the spring and go well into fall, thanks in part to water warmed by the power plant on the south shore. You can also wander around the Spotsylvania Courthouse Historic District nearby to admire the centuries-old homes and public buildings.

The National Park Service has created self-guided walking and driving tours of this important battlefield as well as other nearby Civil War sites. In May 1864, the Union and Confederate armies waged war for two weeks near the Spotsylvania Courthouse, located 18 miles northeast of Lake Anna, and tens of thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded here.

Many of the trails, as well as the fishing pond, are wheelchair accessible. Located on the north end of Lake Anna, this state park offers the area’s best beach, broad and sandy, as well as more than 15 miles of hiking and horse trails that skirt the lake’s ruffled shoreline or meander through the woodlands.

Lake airbnb near me