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I ride across the dam to the other side of Paradise Lake, where I remember there being two campsites

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09826-paradise-lake-dam-800.jpg I saw a lot of dragonflies buzzing around the plants along the dam, and here's one resting on a plant at my campsiteThumbnailsI ride a mile up Red Creek Road across Paradise Flat, one of the only flat areas in Henry Coe State Park, and I feel hotterI saw a lot of dragonflies buzzing around the plants along the dam, and here's one resting on a plant at my campsiteThumbnailsI ride a mile up Red Creek Road across Paradise Flat, one of the only flat areas in Henry Coe State Park, and I feel hotterI saw a lot of dragonflies buzzing around the plants along the dam, and here's one resting on a plant at my campsiteThumbnailsI ride a mile up Red Creek Road across Paradise Flat, one of the only flat areas in Henry Coe State Park, and I feel hotterI saw a lot of dragonflies buzzing around the plants along the dam, and here's one resting on a plant at my campsiteThumbnailsI ride a mile up Red Creek Road across Paradise Flat, one of the only flat areas in Henry Coe State Park, and I feel hotterI saw a lot of dragonflies buzzing around the plants along the dam, and here's one resting on a plant at my campsiteThumbnailsI ride a mile up Red Creek Road across Paradise Flat, one of the only flat areas in Henry Coe State Park, and I feel hotter

Small, fragrant tarweed flowers enliven the trail on the dam with bright yellow. Like other lakes in Henry Coe State Park, Paradise Lake didn't exist until a dam was built here, probably by ranchers.