Getting There: Take the 2 Mile Road #431 exit outside of St. Regis. At about mile 6, take the right fork up Coyle Creek (#1180). This road is an alternate way to get to the Stateline Road near Ward Peak. After 1.75 miles you will cross a small stream. This is the outlet from Lenore Lake and your trailhead. It is about a half mile uphill to Lenore Lake and there isn’t an established trail.
Head up the hill to the right of the stream. 
There is a passable game trail from the trailhead that will wind up the hill and through much of the dead-fall to the first old logging road but is hard to find after that. The draw eventually will flatten out a bit. It is easy to drift to the left here if you lose the trail and get out of line with the lake. Early in the year the outlet stream is visibly running, but during the summer months it doesn't stay on the surface.
With the amount of timber, brush, and the small lake profile it is hard to tell where the lake sits, you won't see it until you are virtually there. I did find that I had dependable cell service part way up the hill and while at the lake, so you can access maps and have a good idea where you are in relation to the lake. Stay to the right side of the creek, but not too far towards the ridge. You will cross 2 old logging roads, but they are totally brushed in and worthless to try to navigate. Be patient and pick your way through the dead-fall (lots of it) and brush.
At the Lake: Lenore Lake is probably the smallest lake on my list that has (had) a viable population of catchable trout; I could almost cast halfway across the lake with my spinner. Much of the shoreline is difficult and brushy and early in the year the lake level is up several feet. There are small campsites on either side of the outlet. This is a good early season lake as most of the other lakes in the Great Burn region are either still frozen over or roads to their trailheads are not yet passable. Also, there is a little less brush if visited just after the snow has melted off. When I went back in 2023 and 2025, I didn’t see any fish (Cutthroat) like I did in 2020.
