Tolo Lake is a small natural lake (covering about 35 acres), located roughly 6 miles west of Grangeville, Idaho. The place is picturesque, surrounded by prairie farmland and distant hills. The lake was a traditional gathering place for the Nez Perce.
The place is popular for warm-water fishing (largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, channel catfish, and stocked trout), birdwatching, and picnicking. There is a shoreline fishing access trail that allows easy walking along the banks of the lake. My wife and I walked to the end of that trail — a nice spring time stroll.
Paleontologists have recovered Columbian mammoth and bison fossils from the lakebed in the mid-1990s. There are no fossils are on display in the area.
