Deepest lakes & reservoirs in 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 2151 articles we have published for lakes.
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Below are lakes within Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in , only the 2151 lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Sevier Bridge Reservoir, UT (Panoramaland Region, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
74 ft | Also known as Yuba Lake Sevier Bridge Reservoir is also known as Yuba Lake. The name is pretty much interchangeable for the locals, so if you are looking for directions, some … |
| Long Lake, WI (Lake Superior Northwoods Region, WI, US Midwest Region, USA, Wisconsin) |
74 ft | There are 59 lakes in Wisconsin named Long Lake, but only one has the state designation of “Walleye Capital of Wisconsin.” Long Lake near Sarona in so … |
| Lake Lucerne WI (Lake Superior Northwoods Region, WI, US Midwest Region, USA, Wisconsin) |
73 ft | Also known as Lucerne Lake Tucked away in the Lake Superior Northwoods Region of Wisconsin, Lake Lucerne has provided the perfect getaway spot for generations of lakelubbers. Th … |
| Clearwater Lake MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro Region, MN, Minnesota, US Midwest Region, USA) |
73 ft | Just north of Minnesota’s small city of Annandale is Clearwater Lake, a popular residential lake in an area with abundant bodies of water. Visitors an … |
| Lake Osakis, MN (Central Minnesota, Minnesota, US Midwest Region, USA) |
73 ft | Also known as Osakis Lake Lake Osakis, stretched across the prairie in the Central Region of Minnesota, has been a vacation destination for several generations of ‘lake lubbers … |
| Keystone Lake, OK (Green Country, OK, Oklahoma, US Southwest Region, USA) |
73 ft | Keystone Lake is an impressive 26,000-acre recreational gem located in north-central Oklahoma, just 15 miles west of Tulsa. Natural beauty surrounds t … |
| Burt Lake, MI (Michigan, Northeast Michigan, US Midwest Region, USA) |
73 ft | Also known as Chaboiganing Twenty miles south of the Straits of Mackinac is the ancient inland waterway from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. This series of connecting lakes and riv … |
| Spruce Run Reservoir, NJ (New Jersey, Skylands Region, NJ, US Mid-Atlantic Region, USA) |
73 ft | Spruce Run Reservoir is one of the oldest reservoirs in the state of New Jersey. Constructed in the 1960s to meet an increasing need for water supplie … |
| Lake Bratan (Indonesia) |
72 ft | Also known as Bratan Lake , Beratan Lake, Danau Beratan Lake Bratan’s water temple, the Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, is one of the most-photographed cultural features on the Island of Bali. The Hindu temple, buil … |
| Lake Minnewaska NY (Catskills Region, NY, New York, US Mid-Atlantic Region, USA) |
72 ft | Also known as Coxing Pond An unusual world nestles atop the Shawangunk Mountain ridge in New York’s Catskills region, and Lake Minnewaska is a vital part of that rare world. Th … |
| Derwentwater (England, England's Northwest Region, United Kingdom) |
72 ft | Also known as Derwent Water, Derwentwater Lake, The Lake District Cumbria, in northwest England, is home to Lake District National Park, established in 1951. All of the land in England that exceeds an elevation of 3, … |
| Upper Rideau Lake (Canada, Ontario, Canada) |
72 ft | Also known as Rideau Lakes Upper Rideau Lake holds a prominent place in Ontario’s ‘other Cottage Country’. Although many think of the area around Lake Muskoka as Eastern Canada’ … |