Silver Lake

Silver Lake earns an A — every scored parameter (clarity) rates among the best monitored waters in Crow Wing County.

A TSI value of 36 puts Silver Lake in the oligotrophic range, where biological productivity stays low and the water column remains clear. A maximum depth of 23 ft puts Silver Lake in the middle of Minnesota's depth distribution. Silver Lake covers 208 acres alongside 2.1 miles of shoreline — a mid-sized water that supports a working fishery without being so large that conditions diverge between basins. Silver Lake ranks 17 of 120 in Crow Wing County, putting it in the upper tier of locally monitored lakes.

Silver Lake has no invasive species recorded in Minnesota state databases as of 2022, though prevention practices still apply at all access points. The fishery is bass-led, with 6 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 long ice-out record — 25 observations on file, with a median ice-out around Apr 13. 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.