Mukooda Lake

Mukooda Lake earns an A — water clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a all rate among the best monitored waters in St. Louis County. 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 Minnesota lakes fall. The lake's 78 ft maximum depth is in the upper tier for Minnesota — deep enough for cold-water fish to find refuge in summer. At 774 acres, Mukooda Lake fits the Minnesota median for monitored lakes, with 5.4 miles of shoreline. Mukooda Lake ranks 4 of 187 in St. Louis County, putting it in the upper tier of locally monitored lakes.

Mukooda Lake has no invasive species recorded in Minnesota state databases as of 2024, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. Walleye are documented at Mukooda Lake, one of 14 fish species on record for the lake. The lake lacks a documented public access point, so visitor use is limited. 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.