Parkers Lake

Parkers Lake earns a C — middle-of-the-pack water quality, with one or two parameters dragging the average down from a stronger grade. The three sub-grades — clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a — track close together, so no single parameter is dragging the average.

At a TSI of 54, Parkers Lake reads as eutrophic — nutrient-rich enough that summer algal growth and reduced clarity are expected, not unusual. A maximum depth of 37 ft puts Parkers Lake in the middle of Minnesota's depth distribution. Parkers Lake covers 100 acres alongside 1.8 miles of shoreline — a mid-sized water that supports a working fishery without being so large that conditions diverge between basins. Among the 95 graded lakes in Hennepin County, Parkers Lake ranks 20 — in the top quartile locally.

Eurasian watermilfoil has been documented at Parkers Lake, requiring shoreline management to keep dense mats from crowding native vegetation. The fishery is bass-led, with 9 documented species across the lake's records. Public access is available — the lake is on the Minnesota PCA public-access list. The lake has a partial ice record — 19 observed ice-outs, centered near Apr 3. 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.