What Minnesota lakes have you swam in? (high school, swimming)

[moving123456]

Originally Posted by DaPerpKazoo

FYI, there's no beaches on Isles.

No beach, but people are jumping off the bridge near Dean Parkway almost every day during the summer.

[bdogmoe]

sorry to say i have not on any of those. a few local lakes in st paul. tanners lake. silver lake. but the most time spent in crosslake is the whitefish chain of lakes.

[Govie]

Phalen, Gervais, Forest, WBL, Bald Eagle, Superior (yes, it's freaking COLD), and a few more here and there.

[chessgeek]

This thread brings back good childhood memories. I swam in Moore Lake and Spring Lake (Fridley, Spring Lake Park respectively when I was a child); Bass Lake near Annandale at the family cabin in the late 60's/early 70's and also Lake Minnetonka (once while living in MN and another time visiting back in 1977..I was 17). My grandmother lived in northern MN on Strait Lake near Osage but that water was almost always cold...we boated there, but I do not recall swimming.

I can't imagine anyone swimming in Lake Superior without a wet suit and the same can be said for the Pacific Ocean in northern California which is only 15 miles from where I live now.

[Govie]

Originally Posted by chessgeek

This thread brings back good childhood memories. I swam in Moore Lake and Spring Lake (Fridley, Spring Lake Park respectively when I was a child); Bass Lake near Annandale at the family cabin in the late 60's/early 70's and also Lake Minnetonka (once while living in MN and another time visiting back in 1977..I was 17). My grandmother lived in northern MN on Strait Lake near Osage but that water was almost always cold...we boated there, but I do not recall swimming.

I can't imagine anyone swimming in Lake Superior without a wet suit and the same can be said for the Pacific Ocean in northern California which is only 15 miles from where I live now.

Superior is crazy cold but when those crazy hot humid Minnesota days come around it can be done. I've heard the lake is actually warmest in late late Summer and into Fall, but I've never swam there in Fall.

[emcee squared]

I went swimming in Lake Superior in November. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[tipitop]

Square lake, the cleanest lake in TC area is not on list?

[iNviNciBL3]

Lake St Croix, Calhoun, White Bear and Sturgoen (the one north of Hibbing)

Originally Posted by tipitop

Square lake, the cleanest lake in TC area is not on list?

Never heard of it

[tvdxer]

The surface water temperature at Park Point Beach in Duluth (Lake Superior) is about 65-68F in August. Here's an article which shows Lake Superior getting up to 74.8F in July 2012, although that was partly a result of run-off from the June floods (as well as from the very warm spring that year):

Swimming anyone? Lake Superior water temps warmest in a century | Updraft | Minnesota Public Radio News

It was a little lower this year as the result of an opposite pattern from Spring 2012: "Spring" 2013 was bitterly cold, and April 2013 came in as the snowiest month (of any) in Duluth history. This was taken from the Wisconsin Point in Superior, WI on April 25th, 2013:


IMAG0616-1 by tvdxer, on Flickr

[Kayekaye]

Quite a lot on the list but some that were not on the list:

Whitefish lower upper, Jenkins
Lower hay lake, Jenkins
Moose Lake, Barnum
White Bear Lake, White Bear Lake
Centerville Lake, Centerville
Square Lake, Grant?
Forrest Lake, Forrest Lake
Turtle Lake, Shoreview
Lake Owasso, Shoreview
Snail Lake, Arden Hills
Long Lake, New Brighton
Moore Lake, Fridley
The Quarries, St. Cloud
Big Lake, Big Lake
Lake Rebecca, Near Rockford
Lake Independence, Near Rockford
The Clayhole, Coon Rapids, gone now
Coon Lake, Andover
Fish Lake, near Harris

all I can think of for now. Needless to say we REALLY like swimming in our MN lakes.