Deer Lake is at a record high this Summer, 2025.
Some debris at the Dam on West Deer Lake Road was thought to be a hindrance; it has been cleared. There is another small lake, called Bay Lake, between Deer Lake and the Dam on West Deer Lake Road. Both Deer and the Creek from Moose and Little Moose flow into this intermediary Bay Lake, and then together as the headwaters of the Deer River to the Dam. Waters from the north (Moose and many smaller lakes) do not flow into Deer Lake, but from Bay, with Deer, along the Deer Rive to the Dam. Although the elevations between Moose, Deer, Bay and the Dam are slight, the flow includes no mixing of Deer and Moose Lake waters. This is important because Moose Lake has been infected by Zebra Mussels.
The hydrology graph of the lake water level is a 10 year measurement that concludes with the end of 2024 (ICE-IN: very low at 1307.55), followed by the DNR’s re-establishment of the lake water level gauge for 2025, after ICE-OUT. With the snow melt in the lake for the Spring of 2025, the level was 1.05 feet higher, at 1308.60. Since then rains have increased the level substantially from where it leaves off on the graph. The record high we have had in June and July 2025, would be in excess of the top of this graph at 1309.00+. Water levels will continue to be monitored throughout the season till ICE-IN.
Of interest is the increasing variance between high and low lake levels.
