Cony Lake is a small

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, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the

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. There are no trails leading to the lake or the Goat Creek drainage.Sawtooth National Forest. “Sawtooth National Forest” ap1:126,720, 1”=2 miles. Twin Falls, Idaho: Sawtooth National Forest, United States Forest Service, 1998. Cony Lake is in the

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, and a wilderness permit can be obtained at a registration box at trailheads or wilderness boundaries.

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