What is "grand lake"

Grand Lake is Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake. It is located in the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. On its north shore is located the historic and eponymous town of Grand Lake. The lake fills a glaciated valley that is dammed in part by glacial till from the Pinedale Glaciation, and is younger than about 12,000 years. Natural tributaries to the lake are the North Inlet and East Inlet, both of which flow out of Rocky Mountain National Park, which surrounds the lake on three sides: Grand Lake is located 1 mile from the Park's western entrance. Grand Lake was named Spirit Lake by the Ute Tribe because they believed the lake's cold waters to be the dwelling place of departed souls.

Grand Lake was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Grand Lake can refer to at least 9 different lakes in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia:

• Grand Lake, Annapolis County (south of Annapolis Royal) at
• Grand Lake, Cape Breton County (northwest of Sydney) at
• Grand Lake, Cape Breton County (north of Louisbourg) at
• Grand Lake, Halifax Regional Municipality (north of Sambro) at
• Grand Lake, (west of Sheet Harbour) at
• Grand Lake, Halifax Regional Municipality (southeast of Meaghers Grant) at
• Grand Lake, Halifax Regional Municipality (west of Porters Lake) at
• Shubenacadie Grand Lake, Halifax County (west of Enfield) at
• Grand Lake, Richmond County (on Isle Madame) at

Grand Lake is a lake located in central New Brunswick, Canada. It is approximately 40 kilometres east of Fredericton; and the province's largest open body of water being a total of 20 kilometers long and 5 kilometres wide. The lake drains through the Jemseg River and the Grand Lake Meadows into the Saint John River.

Records indicate that by the early 1600s [Grand Lake] was inhabited by Maliseet and Mi’kmaq peoples. The traditional world for Grand Lake is "Kchee'quis" meaning Big Lake.

Commercial barges of forest products were towed across the lake from a large sawmill in Chipman to a pulp mill in Saint John until the late 1990s. Other commercial activates included New Brunswick's largest coal mining area with extensive strip mines in the Newcastle Creek valley. In the 1850s, significant amounts of 'Newcastle coal' was being shipped down river from Grand Lake to the Saint John River. This was a coal-fired power generating station that was built in 1931 and was torn down in 2012 , it was formerly operated by NB Power, and is located on the lake shore near the village of Minto.

Today, the lake is popular for recreational activates for the locals and for visitors, with several beaches and cottages, and campground along its shores. This large body of water acts as a heat sink: moderating local temperatures, creating the warmest climate in the province, and extending the growing season.

Communities along or near Grand Lake include:

• Minto
• Princess Park
• Grand Lake West
• Douglas Harbour
• Jemseg
• Mill Cove
• Youngs Cove
• Cumberland Bay
• Waterborough

Campgrounds along or near Grand Lake include:

• Grand Lake Campground
• Princess Park
• Mohawk Camping
• Lakeside Campground

Lakes and rivers which drain into Grand Lake include:

• Newcastle Creek
• Salmon River
• Coal Creek
• Cumberland Bay Stream
• Maquapit Lake

Grand Lake is a freshwater lake located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The lake is not located in the community of Grand Lake, Louisiana.

Grand Lake is a lake in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Grand Lake was so named on account of its relatively large size.

Grand Lake is a lake just west of Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. It is crescent-shaped. Its primary outflow is Little West River, which flows into the Northwest Arm of Sheet Harbour. The land area of the Sheet Harbour 36 Indian reserve extends to a part of the shore of Grand Lake. In 2012, the Nova Scotia Government bought of land near the lake worth $1.1 million.

Grand Lake is a large lake in the interior of the island of Newfoundland, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has an area of 534 km², making it the largest lake on Newfoundland. The lake was flooded in 1924 with the construction of the Main Dam to a depth of approximately 12 meters above original lake level, which in turn combined with Sandy Lake and Birchy Lake.

The lake serves as a reservoir for the hydro-electric generating station at Deer Lake, which was constructed to provide power for the pulp and paper mill at Corner Brook. Contained with the lake is the 18th largest lake-island in the world, Glover Island.

It is located on the west side of the Newfoundland, 24 km southeast of the city of Corner Brook. Fed by numerous small streams and brooks, it drains into Deer Lake via the 11-km Humber Canal, and then via the Humber River, into the Bay of Islands. The lake contains the uninhabited Glover Island (178 km). Together with its feeder lakes, Sandy and Birchy, Grand Lake forms a waterway much used by recreational boaters.

Grand Lake is a lake in Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Lake is a substantial lake of approximately 7 miles (11 km) in length and up to 1.5 miles (2.5 km) in width. The lake is on the boundary between Presque Isle Township to the east and Krakow Township to the west, approximately 15 miles (25 km) north of Alpena on U.S. Highway 23, which passes to the south and west of the lake.

Fishing species include: bluegill, bullhead catfish, northern pike, Gar pike, bowfin, pumpkinseed sunfish, rock bass, smallmouth bass, white sucker, yellow perch, and walleye.

The lake lies on the landward side of a prominent promontory in the county that juts out into Lake Huron, thereby making the promontory almost an island and indirectly giving the promontory and county their name of "Presque Isle." The lake contains many islands, such as Brown Island, Grand Island, and Macombers Island.

The two Presque Isle, Michigan lighthouses are nearby to the east: the New Presque Isle Lighthouse at 4500 E. Grand Lake Road and the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse at 5295 Grand Lake Road.

Deposits of Rock salt were discovered at a depth of 1284 feet in the vicinity of Grand Lake. On the west shore of the lake are ledges, which rise to a height of 40 feet above lake level, and include Cerepatora fossils along with crinoid stems.

Grand Lake is a lake in the Ottawa River drainage basin in the geographic townships of Barron and Stratton in the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.

The lake is long and narrow and lies in an east-west orientation, mostly in Barron Township except for the southeastern end which is in Stratton Township; it is entirely within Algonquin Provincial Park. The primary inflows are the Barron River from its source at Clemow Lake at the west and Carcajou Creek at the large Carcajou Bay at the southeast, and primary outflow is the Barron River, controlled by the Grand Lake Dam, which flows at the east to Stratton Lake and further via the Petawawa River to the Ottawa River.

Grand Lake is crossed in the middle by the originally Canadian Northern Railway, later Canadian National Railway, main line, now abandoned. The Achray park campground, formerly a station on the railway, is located on the north shore, and the unincorporated place of Hydro is on the former railway line at the western tip of the lake, near where a Hydro One hydroelectricity transmission line passes.