Boulder Lake
Making Connections
Maps
- Fisher
F-8, Vermilion,
Trout Lake, Vermilion River, Bootleg Lake; F-9, Cummings,
Big Moose, Fourtown Lakes
- McKenzie
No. 16, Burntside
Lake
Links
- DNR Lake No. 690302
- Lake Map No. N/A
- Lake Table No. 1
- MDH Fish Consumption
Advisory - N/A
- MPCA Water Quality
- N/A
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Scale 1:21420
Full image approximately 2
miles square |
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Description
Boulder is a deep, moderate size lake
in the Phantom Creek drainage of the Vermilion basin, 28¾ miles southeast
of Crane Lake and 13½ miles WNW of Ely. Crudely rectangular
in form (½ mile x ¼ mile, with a NW/SE orientation) with a
large island in its east end, Boulder's 238 acres have a maximum depth of
51', with most of the lake bottom in the deep water zone below 15'.
Boulder received some damage from the Fourth of July windstorms of '99,
including a small blowdown off the western end.
Campsites
Boulder supports a single established
campsite, at the west end of the island.
Planning Considerations
Boulder is part of a group of small, interconnected
lakes clustered near the southern boundary of the BWCAW, just to the southwest
of Crab. Other lakes in the group are Battle,
Clark, Glimmer, Hassel,
Meat, Phantom, Saca,
and Sprite.
Wildlife
Boulder supports populations of Largemouth
Bass (Micropterus salmoides),
Northern Pike (Esox lucius)
and White Sucker (Catostomus
commersoni).
Notes and Comments
| Notes on Boulder Lake, from Mike Taylor:
The Boulder Lake campsite did receive some storm damage, making
it less appealing than it used to be with a couple of large trees
down in the middle of camp. There is a colony of carpenter? ants
near the campsite as well, but they didn't bother us. I caught
a really big largemouth bass on Boulder as well.
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Last updated on
11 April, 2004
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