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Three inches of water became three feet, and swimming holes appeared.

The area is a popular hiking destination, with waterfalls and swimming holes.

Just west of Fresno, this swath of paradise is the underrated local favorite, with welcoming campgrounds, easy-to-navigate day trails, plentiful backpacking opportunities and swimming holes galore.

And Angelenos have many ways to access it, including a long coastline hugged by the Pacific, plenty of pools and refreshing swimming holes galore.

The lake was used as a swimming hole in the past, but it has since become home to invasive snails, algae, bacteria and decades’ worth of sediment that has piled up.