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Courtright Reservoir is a man-made lake at 8,000 feet elevation in the Kings River drainage of the Sierra Nevada. Besides the lake, it's a land of domes, dramatic granite slopes, and exfoliating rock that creates "shelves" and little cliffs, filled with flowers and juniper trees.