CROSS LAKE
CROSS LAKE
Location: Northwest of the city of Crosslake
Area: 1,815 acres
Deepest Point: 84 feet
Shore Length: 21.85 miles
Fish Species: Black bullhead, black crappie, bluegill, brown bullhead, burbot, green sunfish, hybrid sunfish, lake whitefish, largemouth bass, northern pike, northern sunfish, pumpkinseed, rock bass, smallmouth bass, tullibee (cisco), walleye, yellow bullhead, yellow perch, bowfin (dogfish), greater redhorse, redhorse, shorthead redhorse, silver redhorse, white sucker, banded killifish, blackchin shiner, blacknose shiner, bluntnose minnow, central mudminnow, common shiner, fathead minnow, golden shiner, Iowa darter, Johnny darter, least darter, logperch, mimic shiner, spotfin shiner, spottail shiner.
Public Water Access: Back in access off W Shore Drive, a back in access at the campgrounds off County Road 66 and a back in access off of Robert Street.
Interesting Fact: The Crosslake Lumber Company was the hub of many lumber operations from the 1890s until 1910. Tracks from Cross Lake spiderwebbed outward into undeveloped forest throughout the area. Logs from places including the Blind Lake logging camp would go to Cross Lake where they would then be sent by river to Brainerd, Little Falls, St. Cloud and St. Paul to mills where they would be processed into lumber. (From “A Taste of History: Tales and Tastes of the Crosslake Area Past”).
Sources include Minnesota Department of Natural Resources LakeFinder
506 James St, Brainerd 218-829-4705 BrainerdDispatch.com