Cabin Lake

Cabin Lake sits at the top of the Minnesota PCA grading rubric with an A, a mark reached by the cleanest lakes in Minnesota. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

Mesotrophic conditions dominate at Cabin Lake: enough nutrients for a healthy fishery, not so much that algal blooms become a chronic problem. A maximum depth of just 3 ft means sediment-bound phosphorus releases back into the water column whenever wind stirs the bottom — a classic shallow-lake dynamic. At 66 acres, Cabin Lake sits below the Minnesota median: a small water where shoreline activity has an outsized effect on water quality. Within Lake County's 142 graded waters, Cabin Lake sits at rank 29, near the top of the local distribution.

Cabin Lake has no invasive species recorded in Minnesota state databases as of 2024, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. 3 fish species are documented at Cabin Lake, a mixed warm-water community typical for Minnesota lakes of this size. No formal public access is documented at Cabin Lake — most use is by shoreline residents and their guests. 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.