Park Creek Pond

Park Creek Pond sits at the top of the Wisconsin DNR grading rubric with an A, a mark reached by the cleanest lakes in Wisconsin. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

A TSI near 46 places Park Creek Pond in the mesotrophic band — moderate productivity, with seasonal swings between clearer spring water and richer late-summer conditions. A maximum depth of just 7 ft means sediment-bound phosphorus releases back into the water column whenever wind stirs the bottom — a classic shallow-lake dynamic. Park Creek Pond is small — 9 acres alongside partial shoreline records — which makes it sensitive to even modest changes in watershed runoff or recreational pressure. Among the 44 graded lakes in Douglas County, Park Creek Pond ranks 8 — in the top quartile locally.

Park Creek Pond has no invasive species recorded in Wisconsin state databases as of 2022, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. 2 fish species are documented at Park Creek Pond, a mixed warm-water community typical for Wisconsin lakes of this size. 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.