Deepest lakes & reservoirs in Utah by maximum depth (ft)
The estimated greatest depth of the water in a lake can be measured at the lake’s normal elevation. If the water volume and surface area of a lake are known, an estimate of the lake’s average depth can be calculated:Water volume ÷ Surface Area = Average Depth
Example: 1,000,000 acre-feet ÷ 20,000 acres = 50 feet average depth.
You can find many of the the world’s deepest lakes on LakeLubbers. If you sort the list, you will find the (maximum depth of) the shallowest lakes in our database. Note: For some lakes, lake depth data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 23 articles we have published for Utah lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US West Region > Utah > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in Utah, only the 23 Utah lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
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Max depth in feet ![]() |
Lake description |
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Panguitch Lake, UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
66 ft | Located in the Dixie National Forest of southwestern Utah, visitors of this beautiful state won’t want to miss Panguitch Lake, along the Brian Head-Pa … |
Minersville Reservoir, UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
44 ft | Also known as Rocky Ford Reservoir Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, has a landscape characterized by breathtaking canyons, meandering rivers that flow through granite mountains, thi … |
Fairview Lakes (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
40 ft | Also known as Fairview Lake #1, Fairview Lake #2 Surrounded by the unspoiled wilderness of the Manti-La Sal National Forest, Fairview Lakes provides a pleasant opportunity for lakefront living in Uta … |
Great Salt Lake, UT (Great Salt Lake Country, UT, Ogden & Northwest Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
33 ft | Also known as America's Dead Sea Sometimes called “America’s Dead Sea,” the Great Salt Lake occupies approximately 1,700 square miles of Utah’s real estate. It is the second largest l … |
Kents Lakes (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
30 ft | Also known as Kents Lake, Upper Kents Lake, Lower Kents Lake Three popular little lakes in Utah’s Panoramaland Region are the three Kents Lakes: Upper Kents Lake, Lower Kents Lake, and Kents Lake. These small re … |
Gunnison Reservoir, UT (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
28 ft | Also known as Sugar Kids Pond Like most of the lakes in Utah, Gunnison Reservoir is man-made. Also known as Sugar Kids Pond, the reservoir is an impoundment of the San Pitch River. … |
Gunnison Bend Reservoir, UT (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
24 ft | Gunnison Bend Reservoir gets its name from the nearby town of Gunnison (it lies to the East of the lake), and from the big bend in the middle. It shou … |
DMAD Reservoir, UT (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
24 ft | Also known as Delta Reservoir For an oasis in the middle of the Sevier Desert near Delta, head to DMAD Reservoir (also known as Delta Reservoir), an impoundment of the lower reache … |
Johnson Valley Reservoir, UT (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
21 ft | Johnson Valley Reservoir is a 700-acre lake just three miles northeast of Fish Lake in the heart of Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. The reservoir was … |
Utah Lake, UT (Mountainland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
18 ft | Utah Lake is located in north-central Utah’s Mountainland region with the major cities of Provo and Orem on the eastern shore. It is the largest fresh … |
Navajo Lake UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
16 ft | A piece of Mother Nature’s finest work describes the beauty of the area surrounding Navajo Lake in the Dixie National Forest in the southwest corner o … |