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Torch Lake is a lake in the Northern Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. At 19 miles (31 km) long, is Michigan's longest inland lake, and at approximately 29.3 mi 2 (76 km 2), it is Michigan's second largest inland lake, after Houghton Lake. It has a maximum depth of 310 feet (94 m) and an average depth of 111 feet (34 m), making it ...
Torch Lake is an approximately 2,700-acre (11 km 2) lake lying mostly within Torch Lake Township with portions within Osceola and Schoolcraft townships in Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The lake is fed by the Traprock River. The village of Lake Linden at the north end of the lake was once the site of the largest copper milling ...
Torch Lake: 18,722 acres (7,577 ha) 285 feet (87 m) Antrim and Kalkaska counties 1614970 Torch Lake: 2,659 acres (1,076 ha) 120 feet (37 m) Houghton County: 1614969 Tower Pond 322 acres (130 ha) Cheboygan County: Townline Lake: 73 acres (30 ha) 50 feet (15 m) Mecosta County: 1615011 Townline Lake 289 acres (117 ha) 49 feet (15 m) Montcalm County
The waterway connects to Lake Superior at its north and south entries (upper and lower portage entry lighthouses), with sections known as Portage Lake and Torch Lake in between. The primary tributary to Portage Lake is the Sturgeon River. The Keweenaw Waterway in winter, looking west toward the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.
Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume: 2: Lake Michigan: Illinois - Indiana - Michigan - Wisconsin: 3,987,455,942 acre⋅ft (4,918 km 3) 925 ft (282 m) L. Huron and. L. Michigan may be ...
It has maximum depth of 192 ft (59 m), making it Michigan's second deepest after Torch Lake. It is a popular lake for fishing, featuring lake trout, rock bass, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, muskellunge, ciscoes, brown trout, rainbow trout, and whitefish. Elk Lake lies to the west of the larger Torch Lake, which lies just to the east.
The lake's primarily inflow is the Torch River, bringing in water from Torch Lake and elsewhere in the Chain of Lakes. The lake is connected at the west to Elk Lake, and through Elk Lake, water outflows through the short Elk River. The Elk River then empties into the East Arm of the Grand Traverse Bay, itself a bay of Lake Michigan. The lake ...
Antrim County is home to Torch Lake, Michigan's deepest and second-largest inland lake. Torch Lake, famous for its clear and blue waters, [4] [5] [6] is part of the Chain of Lakes Watershed, most of which lies within Antrim County. The county is bordered to the west by Grand Traverse Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan.