Knoll Lake

Knoll Lake

Coconino National Forest Payson, Arizona 85541

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Knoll Lake map

About this Location

This secluded forest lake attracts visitors for a number of reasons. Surrounded by ponderosa pines, with a picturesque island in its middle, Knoll Lake provides a scenic setting in which to enjoy your canoe or another small boat. Fishing is good here too, offering rainbow, brown, and brook trout.

If the fish aren’t biting, you’ll definitely want to take a tour of the nearby Mogollon Rim. This two-thousand-foot escarpment marks the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau and drops from cool highlands to low deserts in a picturesque, stomach-wrenching plunge.

The lake covers approximately 75 acres and is about 50 feet deep.

From Flagstaff take AZ-3 (Lake Mary Road) south 55 miles to Clints Well. Turn left (northeast) on AZ-87, go 10 miles to FR-95 which is just past the Blue Ridge office of the Mogollon Rim Ranger District. Turn right and go 6 miles to FR-96 veering left and travel 2 miles to FR-321. Turn right and drive 10 miles to FR-300. Turn left (east) and go 4 miles to FR-295E. Turn left again and drive to Knoll Lake.

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