Dollar Lake is a small tarn located on Aneroid Mountain in the

Eagle Cap Wilderness Eagle Cap Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon (United States), within the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest.

of Northeastern Oregon,

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. It is between Aneroid Lake and

Bonny Lakes Bonny Lakes are two small, shallow, mountain ponds located in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of Northeastern Oregon, United States. They are positioned in a large meadow on Aneroid Mountain known as Bonny Lakes basin, which is about two miles east o ...

and lies southwest of Aneroid Peak.Frank Barstad, ''Hiking Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness'' 2002 Morris Book Publishing It likely received its name because of its size and its almost perfectly round shape, much like that of a silver dollar. It is the third-highest lake in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
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Trail

Dollar Lake can be accessed by Trail 1802. The route from Tenderfoot Trailhead or Tenderfoot Wagon Road Trail passes Bonny Lakes about before reaching Dollar Pass, at above sea level. Dollar Lake is off the trail, about southwest of the pass. A navigation device such as a

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or a

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is recommended.

References

Lakes of Oregon Lakes of Wallowa County, Oregon Eagle Cap Wilderness {{WallowaCountyOR-geo-stub

Trail

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