Lake Wenatchee State Park

Leavenworth • United States (USA) flag United States (USA) • Washington
60 windy days
/ year
Water type
lake
Beach type
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Crowd
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Rider level
—
Tide dependent
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Waves
flat

Overview

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Good on both Thermal and Frontal.

The launch from the state park is ok. There is plenty of room to lay out lines and get your kite in the air. Most people layout on the south end of the beach away from the swimmers. The only difficulty is that the wind is straight on shore and hits up against a bank of trees that creates a lot of turbulent air. There is not much distance to tack back and forth to work up wind. Most beginners start at the south end and body drag out to cleaner air about 20 ~30 yards away from the beach. Also, the wind tends to be light close to the beach as it lifts up to get over the hills downwind. It takes a little work to get out into the lake, but once out there it is a good time.

Just wanted to add Stay out of the swimming area and my opinion is its not a beginner friendly area.

Hazards are dead heads in the water and not all of them flow with the wind. The South end is shallow for about 5 yards out. On shore wind.

Please if you go here be careful of others, just like every beach we would hate to see it get closed. There are allot of beach goers and they don’t get out of your way. They have no idea of the potential danger. The house next to the parking lot is the parks department and big brothers ranger is watching from the window. At this time all he has done is suggest U beach.

It is your responsibility to check whether kitesurfing is allowed at the spot; you might need a 'special permit' or membership from a local kite organization, etc. Local rules can change. Respect others - kiters or not; kite safely and enjoy the wind!

Amenities

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Wind

Heads up: this is a partly thermal spot: on sunny days a thermal adds to the wind, so it's usually stronger than the averages below show. The windy days include part of our modelled thermal days, as some of them turn a light day into a windy one or even bring sufficient wind. The average wind speeds don't include the thermal.
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Dominant wind direction
wind 134º
wind 311º
wind 280º
wind 281º
wind 279º
wind 280º
wind 279º
wind 278º
wind 278º
wind 309º
wind 310º
wind 135º
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Weather
Weather
Air temp. (high/low)
3º -4º
4º -4º
8º -2º
11º 0º
17º 4º
22º 9º
28º 13º
28º 14º
23º 11º
15º 5º
7º 0º
3º -3º
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* Days with at least 12+ kt (or other threshold) of wind for at least 2h during daytime. Excluding thermal wind, unless the estimate is applied.

** Average wind for days that get at least 12+ kt (or other threshold) during daytime. Ie days with "no wind" are excluded. Does not include thermal boost.

Data stats by Kite Jungle are based on Open-Meteo.com and other sources More

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