Poke Lake

Drainage: Clarks Fork (WY)
Approaches: From Granite Lake, approximately 3.75 mi; roughly 1,800 ft of climbing along the way · Clay Butte Trailhead, approximately 5 mi
Elevation: 8,630 feet
Fish: No WYG&F data
Coordinates: 44.98571, -109.67157
Bugs: Minimal on our visit

Getting there

Poke sits between Granite Lake and the Clay Butte Trailhead, which makes it the last lake on the way out rather than a destination.

We came at it on day four, walking out from two nights basecamped at Granite. It is about three and three quarter miles from camp with roughly eighteen hundred feet of climbing along the way, and another five miles from Poke back to the trailhead. That is a long day either side of it.

The hike

The walk out from Granite climbs steadily. You dropped nine hundred feet getting into that basin on the way in and you pay it back on the way out, most of it before you reach Poke.

Around eighteen and a half acres at 8,630 feet, which makes it one of the larger lakes on this route and the biggest thing you will pass on the way out.

Tips & safety

• Navigation: the mapped position for Poke is approximate. Our track put it close to where the maps show it, within a couple hundred yards, which is better than some of the water on this route.

• Fishing: no WYG&F data. Wyoming has no stocking record and no published survey for Poke.

• Bugs: minimal on our visit.