Bald Eagle Lake

Bald Eagle Lake sits at a C on the grading scale — not impaired, not pristine, with summer measurements that vary year to year. Clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a all rate similarly, so there is no obvious single lever to pull on watershed management.

At a TSI of 53, Bald Eagle Lake reads as eutrophic — nutrient-rich enough that summer algal growth and reduced clarity are expected, not unusual. A maximum depth of 36 ft puts Bald Eagle Lake in the middle of Minnesota's depth distribution. Bald Eagle Lake covers 1,049 acres alongside 9.2 miles of shoreline, large enough that conditions can vary meaningfully between bays. Bald Eagle Lake sits at rank 26 of 49 in Ramsey County, in the lower half of the local distribution.

Bald Eagle Lake is on the Minnesota infested-waters list for zebra mussels — boaters should follow clean-drain-dry protocols when moving gear to or from the lake. Muskie are on the species list at Bald Eagle Lake, alongside the lake's 13 other documented fish. Public access is available — the lake is on the Minnesota PCA public-access list. Ice-out has been logged at Bald Eagle Lake more than two dozen times, putting the median around Apr 8 — a useful baseline for tracking climate trends. 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.