Little Clubhouse Lake

Little Clubhouse Lake carries a solid B grade — strong on most parameters, with measurements that hold up well across the summer season. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

The lake sits in the mesotrophic zone — the band where most well-managed Minnesota lakes fall. At 103 ft of maximum depth, Little Clubhouse Lake stratifies reliably through the summer — the hypolimnion stays cooler and clearer than the surface layer suggests. At 265 acres, Little Clubhouse Lake fits the Minnesota median for monitored lakes, with 4.7 miles of shoreline. Within Itasca County's 146 graded lakes, Little Clubhouse Lake ranks 93 — below the local median, though not at the bottom.

No invasive species are currently listed at Little Clubhouse Lake — the lake remains off the Minnesota infested-waters roster. The fishery is bass-led, with 14 documented species across the lake's records. Public access is available — the lake is on the Minnesota PCA public-access list. Ice-out has been recorded 8 times at Little Clubhouse Lake, with a median around Apr 19. 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.