Deepest lakes & reservoirs in Alberta, Canada 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 16 articles we have published for Alberta, Canada lakes.
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Below are lakes within Canada > Alberta, Canada > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in Alberta, Canada, only the 16 Alberta, Canada lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Waterton Lakes (Alberta, Canada, Canada, Glacier Country, MT, Montana, US West Region, USA) |
487 ft | Also known as Chief Mountain Lake, Knights Lake, Kootenay Lakes “Where the mountains meet the prairies” is the motto of Waterton Lakes National Park, the home of three Waterton Lakes that straddle the Montana-Alber… |
| Lake Minnewanka (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
466 ft | Also known as Minnewanka Lake Lake Minnewanka holds the distinction of being the largest lake in Banff National Park. The 17-mile-long lake lies between scenic mountain ranges and… |
| Lake Athabasca, AB (Alberta, Canada, Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada) |
407 ft | Lake Athabasca is a 1,939,776-acre lake with a maximum depth of 410 feet making it the largest and deepest lake in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Appr… |
| Quarry Lake, AB (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
330 ft | Quarry Lake is 129-acre lake located one hour west of Calgary and five minutes from the town of Canmore and Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. As… |
| Cold Lake (Alberta, Canada, Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada) |
325 ft | Also known as Big Fish Lake (historical) It’s hard to believe that a water body named Cold Lake would be a summer water sports paradise, but this large lake on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border… |
| Maligne Lake (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
315 ft | With a name derived from the French word for wicked or evil, Alberta’s Maligne Lake (pronounced muh-leen) offers a contradictory scenic and serene fac… |
| Lake Louise, AB (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
230 ft | Snuggled into Banff National Park, Lake Louise is a small lake in Alberta, Canada framed by the Rocky Mountains. The lake’s 200 acres may not seem imp… |
| Peyto Lake (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
144 ft | Banff National Park in Alberta province is the birthplace of the Canadian national park system (1885), and Peyto Lake is one of the small, spectacular… |
| Lesser Slave Lake, AB (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
67 ft | Located 236 miles northwest of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, Lesser Slave Lake’s more than 280,000 surface acres present a wonderful scenic recreationa… |
| Sylvan Lake (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
60 ft | Sylvan Lake is located midway between Alberta’s two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton, and 12 miles northwest of Red Deer. This natural lake covers… |
| Moraine Lake (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
46 ft | Moraine Lake, one of the jewels in Banff National Park’s crown, is sometimes dismissively called ‘the other lake’. Nothing could be more misleading. N… |
| Gull Lake, AB (Alberta, Canada, Canada) |
26 ft | Surrounded by Alberta’s wide-open spaces and endless Canadian skies, Gull Lake is located in Alberta’s Central tourism region. Well situated between E… |