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Buescher Lake

HOUGH IT’S A MERE FIVE-MINUTE DRIVE FROM THE cinematic charms and lively happy hours of Smithville, Buescher Lake is a world of its own, one dominated by birdsong, croaking frogs, and lofty trees reflected in a lake so small some might call it a pond.

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