What is the cleanest lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin?

Spider Lake in Vilas County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Vilas County, Wisconsin, with 10.5 feet of measured water clarity.

How are these rankings calculated?

Nutrients and algae, total phosphorus, nitrogen, chlorophyll-a and turbidity, are read against EPA National Lakes Assessment 2022 condition classes for that lake’s ecoregion. Water clarity (Secchi depth) is measured and shown separately. Lakes without enough recent samples are listed without a condition class rather than ranked low. Source data comes from the EPA Water Quality Portal.

Cleanest Lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin

Spider Lake in Vilas County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 10.5 ft of clarity. Below are the top 50 cleanest monitored lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Spider Lake	Vilas	10.5 ft	14.1 µg/L	-
2	Pickerel Lake	Vilas	6 ft	23 µg/L	-
3	Carpenter Lake	Vilas	7.5 ft	17 µg/L	-
4	North Turtle Lake	Vilas	8.5 ft	15.4 µg/L	-
5	Plum Lake	Vilas	14.2 ft	13 µg/L	-
6	Bass Lake	Vilas	12.8 ft	18.5 µg/L	-
7	Pioneer Lake	Vilas	9.5 ft	15.2 µg/L	-
8	Little Spider Lake	Vilas	16 ft	11.6 µg/L	-
9	Rosalind Lake	Vilas	19.3 ft	10.5 µg/L	-
10	Oxbow Lake	Vilas	8 ft	15.1 µg/L	-
11	Towanda Lake	Vilas	10.5 ft	12.7 µg/L	-
12	Birch Lake	Vilas	6.5 ft	16.3 µg/L	-
13	Rush Lake	Vilas	5 ft	19.8 µg/L	-
14	Imogene Lake	Vilas	10 ft	14.9 µg/L	-
15	Anderson Lake	Vilas	20.5 ft	11.5 µg/L	-
16	Carlin Lake	Vilas	21 ft	7.3 µg/L	-
17	High Lake	Vilas	10 ft	14.1 µg/L	-
18	Little Tamarack Flowage Lake	Vilas	8.2 ft	17 µg/L	-
19	Big Lake	Vilas	12.5 ft	12.9 µg/L	-
20	Papoose Lake	Vilas	15 ft	10.4 µg/L	-
21	Kentuck Lake	Vilas	9.5 ft	24.3 µg/L	-
22	Little Crooked Lake	Vilas	8.5 ft	16.8 µg/L	-
23	Big Arbor Vitae Lake	Vilas	6 ft	24.1 µg/L	-
24	Plummer Lake	Vilas	18 ft	11.8 µg/L	-
25	Mcdonald Lake	Vilas	8.6 ft	20.2 µg/L	-
26	Found Lake	Vilas	6 ft	20.7 µg/L	-
27	Circle Lily Lake	Vilas	6 ft	14.6 µg/L	-
28	Big Portage Lake	Vilas	18.5 ft	12 µg/L	-
29	Annabelle Lake	Vilas	8 ft	15.4 µg/L	-
30	Forest Lake	Vilas	22.2 ft	12.8 µg/L	-
31	Crab Lake	Vilas	11 ft	12.6 µg/L	-
32	Wildcat Lake	Vilas	7 ft	16.9 µg/L	-
33	Sunset Lake	Vilas	17.3 ft	11.4 µg/L	-
34	Black Oak Lake	Vilas	29 ft	10.6 µg/L	-
35	Horsehead Lake	Vilas	10 ft	14.6 µg/L	-
36	Ballard Lake	Vilas	15 ft	15.4 µg/L	-
37	Lynx Lake	Vilas	12.8 ft	9.5 µg/L	-
38	Beaver Lake	Vilas	6.5 ft	16.6 µg/L	-
39	Snipe Lake	Vilas	11 ft	14.7 µg/L	-
40	Moon Lake	Vilas	13 ft	14.1 µg/L	-
41	Dead Pike Lake	Vilas	8 ft	14.2 µg/L	-
42	Presque Isle Lake	Vilas	18 ft	10.3 µg/L	-
43	Anvil Lake	Vilas	12 ft	11.8 µg/L	-
44	Crawling Stone Lake	Vilas	16 ft	10.5 µg/L	-
45	South Turtle Lake	Vilas	8 ft	17.3 µg/L	-
46	Gunlock Lake	Vilas	9 ft	18.9 µg/L	-
47	Hiawatha Lake	Vilas	4 ft	18.8 µg/L	-
48	Harris Lake	Vilas	14.9 ft	12.5 µg/L	-
49	Alma Lake	Vilas	12 ft	15 µg/L	-
50	Irving Lake	Vilas	11.3 ft	18.6 µg/L	-

Ranked List

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