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Big Lake

MIDAS 1288 · Washington County

Area

17,619acres

Max depth

70ft recorded

Elevation

202ft · not a gage

Drains toward

St. Croix system

Public landings

—none linked

Public camps

—none linked

Invasive plants

1DEP known

Stocked

—not in report

Ice out

Apr 8, 2025

Ice out

Parks and Lands, 2003 on. A boat can run the length of the lake. Coves may still hold ice.

Mar 17Apr 9May 220042025

Public landings

No DACF public landing is linked to this lake yet. That is a blank, not a claim that access does not exist.

Public camps

No public campground or reserved-land unit is linked to this lake. That is a blank, not a claim that a private campground is absent.

Invasive plants

DEP aquatic invasive layer. A point is the water, not the plant patch. Current means the record is still marked active.

PlantStatusTowns
variable leaf milfoil Current Greenlaw Chopping, Big Lake, Princeton, Indian Twp, GRand Lake Stream Plt

Stocking

Not in the 2026 year-to-date IFW stocking report, or the water name did not match this lake. A river stocking is not listed here.

Same 8-digit watershed

Other DEP lakes that share this HUC-8. That is the drainage bowl, not “this stream dumps into that pond” for every row.

LakeAcres
Booming Ground (Spednic * 19,618
East Grand Lake 16,805
West Grand Lake 14,476
Junior Lake 5,771
Sysladobsis Lake 5,431
Pocumcus Lake 2,211
West Musquash Lake 1,606
Pleasant Lake 1,550