Kreighle Lake

Kreighle Lake sits at the top of the Minnesota PCA grading rubric with an A, a mark reached by the cleanest lakes in Minnesota.

Trophically, Kreighle Lake reads as oligotrophic — nutrient-poor, clear, and ecologically more sensitive to disturbance than richer lakes. Kreighle Lake is unusually deep for Minnesota at 66 ft, which buffers the lake against summer warming and helps the deep water stay oxygenated. Kreighle Lake covers 102 acres alongside 2.0 miles of shoreline — a mid-sized water that supports a working fishery without being so large that conditions diverge between basins. Kreighle Lake ranks 3 of 55 in Stearns County, putting it in the upper tier of locally monitored lakes.

Kreighle Lake has no invasive species recorded in Minnesota state databases as of 2024, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. The fishery is bass-led, with 9 documented species across the lake's records. No formal public access is documented at Kreighle Lake — most use is by shoreline residents and their guests. The lake has a partial ice record — 21 observed ice-outs, centered near Apr 8. 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.