Hume Lake - Current Use

Current Use

Since its purchase by the Forest Service, Hume Lake has become a popular destination, providing a variety of recreational opportunities:

• Camping at a United States Forest Service campground on the northern shore of the lake. The facility consists of 74 sites among four separate sections located at varying distances from the lake shore.

• Hume Lake Christian Camps is the largest facility at the lake, which traces its origins to 1945, when the founders met in the nearby valley town of Dinuba to discuss plans for a Christian Bible camp. On January 9, 1946, 320 acres (130 ha) of lake shore property were purchased to create the camp, including the Hume Lake Hotel, store, service station, post office, 22 cottages, and 22 boats. Soon thereafter, in the summer of 1946, 670 campers and 15 volunteer staff attended conferences at Hume Lake. Since that first summer in 1946, more than 1,000,000 young people and adults have attended the camp for worship, religious studies, and recreation. Activities at the camps include: swimming, disc golf, boating, hiking, biking, paint balling, high ropes course, climbing wall, and a number of recreational games such as Kajabe Kan Kan. Facilities include a dining hall, clothing company, a snack shop, two coffee shops, the Froso (a carnival-themed restaurant), a post office, a gift shop, a recording studio, swimming pool, beach access with row boat and kayak rentals, several lodges, a security booth, and public washing machines.

• Cabins available for private rental
• Boating (non-motorized)
• Fishing The main fishing at Hume Lake consists of trout,
• Cabins these cabins are owned by people and used as vacation homes
• Hiking
• Swimming and related beach activities

• Panorama of the Sierra peaks surrounding Hume Lake.

• Topographical map of Hume Lake.