Kite aerial photographs depicting the southwestern portion of Lake Kahola. Click on the small images below to see larger versions. High-oblique view toward west showing the western half of Lake Kahola.
Wooded bluffs line the south edge of the lake, and lower terraces mark the northern shore.
Late-summer view to the east of bedrock bluffs on southwest side of the lake. Forest grows on the steep limestone bluff, and prairie covers the hill tops behind the bluff. Late-summer view toward the southwest end of the lake. Kahola Creek enters the lake in the upper left corner of the scene. A riverine forest of willow, cottonwood and sycamore lines the creek channel, and a marshy wetland is developed where the stream enters the lake.