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Red Pine Lake is a small alpine reservoir in Little Cottonwood Canyon, in the U.S. state of Utah. This area is also part of the Wasatch National Forest. Red Pine Dam, which holds the lake, was constructed in 1920. The lake can be accessed through a dirt trail from a parking lot off the main road. Th
e most common route is around 7 miles round trip. The lake has a capacity of 100 acre-feet, with the surface area fluctuating frequently through seasons. Recreation around the lake includes fishing, hiking, climbing, and camping, although swimming and wading are prohibited due to it being a protected watershed. Red Pine is considered a watershed area which supplies drinking water for Salt Lake City metropolitan area. This drinking water comes from several hundred inches of snow each year that lasts into July.
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