Applegate Lake offers epic opportunities for hiking, biking, boating, paddleboarding, canoeing, and fishing.

There is a trail that travels around the entirety of the 17.5-mile long shoreline, as well as offshoots into the surrounding wilderness area.

Applegate Lake offers picnic-perfect swimming spots that make for the ideal pit stop on a tasting tour of the Applegate Valley wineries.

Applegate Lake has large populations of trout, landlocked Chinook salmon, smallmouth and largemouth bass, and crappie. It is stocked each year with approximately 120,000 rainbow trout and 50,000 young Chinook.