Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake

On the LakeGrade scale Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake grades a B, with clarity at 10.5 ft and phosphorus readings still being added placing it above the Wisconsin median. Sub-grades cluster within a single letter of each other, which usually means the lake is in stable trophic balance rather than fighting one specific stressor.

The lake sits in the mesotrophic zone — the band where most well-managed Wisconsin lakes fall. Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake reaches 16 ft at its deepest point — typical for Wisconsin mid-sized lakes, with seasonal stratification but limited cold-water refuge. Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake is small — 62 acres alongside partial shoreline records — which makes it sensitive to even modest changes in watershed runoff or recreational pressure. Among the 26 graded lakes in Price County, Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake sits at rank 13, above the county median.

Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake has no invasive species recorded in Wisconsin state databases as of 2020, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. Walleye are documented at Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake, one of 5 fish species on record for the lake. A documented public access point at Lower Park Falls Flowage Lake makes the lake usable for shore fishing, paddle craft, and trailered boats. 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.