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. Park Creek Pond ranks 13 of 40 in Douglas County — solidly in the upper half of the local distribution.

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.