Alice Lake

The LakeGrade rubric puts Alice Lake at a C: clarity at 8.2 ft, phosphorus readings still being added, and a TSI of 47 signal an intermediate trophic state. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

Mesotrophic conditions dominate at Alice Lake: enough nutrients for a healthy fishery, not so much that algal blooms become a chronic problem. At 53 ft of maximum depth, Alice Lake stratifies reliably through the summer — the hypolimnion stays cooler and clearer than the surface layer suggests. Alice Lake covers 1,469 acres alongside 27.6 miles of shoreline, large enough that conditions can vary meaningfully between bays. Alice Lake sits at rank 93 of 142 in Lake County, in the lower half of the local distribution.

No invasive species are currently listed at Alice Lake — the lake remains off the Minnesota infested-waters roster. The state fisheries records do not list documented species for Alice Lake, which usually reflects a lack of formal fisheries survey work rather than an empty lake. The lake lacks a documented public access point, so visitor use is limited. Monitoring depth is thin here: the LakeGrade rubric is applied to a small number of sample years, and the grade will be revised as more data accumulates.