Loiten Lake

Loiten 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.

Mesotrophic conditions dominate at Loiten Lake: enough nutrients for a healthy fishery, not so much that algal blooms become a chronic problem. The lake bottoms out at 49 ft — a moderate depth that supports a warm-water fishery without the year-round cold refuge a deeper basin provides. Loiten Lake is small — 94 acres alongside 2.2 miles of shoreline — which makes it sensitive to even modest changes in watershed runoff or recreational pressure. Loiten Lake ranks 48 of 187 in St. Louis County — solidly in the upper half of the local distribution.

No invasive species are currently listed at Loiten Lake — the lake remains off the Minnesota infested-waters roster. The fishery is bass-led, with 3 documented species across the lake's records. No formal public access is documented at Loiten 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.