Red Pine Lake

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 Lake is also located in a protected watershed for Salt Lake City. 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. The most common route is around 7 miles round trip.
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.