AZ-Carnero+Lake


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Apache County
=Carnero Lake= Greer, Arizona 85927 Carnero Lake fact sheet

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Carnero Lake
Coordinates: 34.117, -109.5284 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Carnero Lake
Carnero Lake is located at 9,033 feet on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. To get there, drive east on AZ-260 from Pinetop-Lakeside. About 3 miles past the AZ-273 junction to Sunrise Park, make a left onto FR-117. Follow this road for 2.5 miles, and then turn right onto FR-117A. Drive 3 miles, and look for the Carnero Lake sign turnoff on the right side of the road. Follow this two-track road a couple hundred yards to the parking area adjacent to the lake. Due to snow and ice, these roads are typically closed from mid-November to mid-April.

Carnero Lake is a shallow 65-acre headwater impoundment of Carnero Creek. It has a maximum depth of ten feet. It’s quite weedy, which is problematic for fishing, but is also an indicator of a highly productive lake. It’s stocked with sub-catchable and catchable-sized rainbow trout in the spring. Because it’s at high elevation and shallow, it’s subject to periodic winter kills. The best time to fish at Carnero is in the spring. Once the weeds begin growing, it’s hard to get a boat or float tube from the shore out to open water, and then it’s difficult to even find much open water. From Carnero Lake fact sheet

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