Spangle Lake is a small alpine lake in Elmore County,

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, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is located at the intersection

Sawtooth National Forest Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Depart ...

trails 462, 463, and 460.Sawtooth National Forest. “Sawtooth National Forest” ap1:126,720, 1”=2 miles. Twin Falls, Idaho: Sawtooth National Forest, United States Forest Service, 1998. Spangle Lake is in the Sawtooth Wilderness, and a wilderness permit can be obtained at a registration box at trailheads or wilderness boundaries. Little Spangle Lake is just downstream of Spangle Lake while

Lake Ingeborg Lake Ingeborg is an American small alpine lake in the Sawtooth Mountains of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Elmore County, Idaho. It is accessible through the Sawtooth National Forest Trail 462.Sawtooth National Forest. “Sawtooth Na ...

is just upstream. The Spangle lakes are the source of the

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