It provides a stable platform for smaller children who like to move around. Leave a couple of feet between your canoes and keep the bows slightly closer together than the sterns. Use duct tape to secure them to the thwarts, or crossbars, in your canoes. You can get a towboat ride to the small stream that runs from Red Rock Lake into Red Rock Bay. Oftentimes you can skip this 10-rod portage by walking, or lining, your canoes up the stream.
Red Rock is a good lake for walleyes and bass and is surprisingly quiet.
There are nice campsites hidden back in some quiet bays. You can make short day trips into Alpine and Rog Lakes from there. You may elect to take a boat ride to Sag Falls where two short portages around the waterfalls, and Horsetail Rapids, will put you into the Devil's Elbow region in a couple of hours. This lake has fantastic walleye fishing and plenty of big bass too. Your kids will also get an educational look at the August '95 forest fire as you walk the two short portages.