Red Cedar Lake

Red Cedar Lake earns an A — every scored parameter (clarity and phosphorus) rates among the best monitored waters in Barron County. clarity and phosphorus rate similarly, so there is no obvious single lever to pull on watershed management.

A TSI near 45 places Red Cedar Lake in the mesotrophic band — moderate productivity, with seasonal swings between clearer spring water and richer late-summer conditions. Red Cedar Lake is unusually deep for Wisconsin at 53 ft, which buffers the lake against summer warming and helps the deep water stay oxygenated. At 1,897 acres, Red Cedar Lake is one of the larger lakes in Barron County, with partial shoreline records supporting multiple distinct use patterns. Within Barron County's 37 graded waters, Red Cedar Lake sits at rank 3, near the top of the local distribution.

An invasive species record — Chinese Mystery Snail — has been logged at Red Cedar Lake; Wisconsin DNR maintains the official infested-waters list. Walleye are documented at Red Cedar Lake, one of 5 fish species on record for the lake. 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.