Deepest lakes & reservoirs in North Central Washington 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 15 articles we have published for North Central Washington lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US West Region > Washington > North Central Washington > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in North Central Washington, only the 15 North Central Washington lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Chelan, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
1,486 ft | From the Salish Indian word for “deep notch”, Lake Chelan is the third deepest lake in the United States with a maximum depth of almost 1500 feet. Lak… |
| Ross Lake (British Columbia, Canada, Canada, North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
400 ft | Also known as Ross Reservoir Spectacular Ross Lake is one of the seldom seen gems in north-central Washington. This fantastic 22-mile long reservoir covers 11,680 acres along the… |
| Cle Elum Lake, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
333 ft | Also known as Lake Cle Elum Providing much needed water to the dry, fertile soil of north-central Washington, Cle Elum Lake is the largest of four irrigation storage reservoirs i… |
| Lake Wenatchee, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
244 ft | Lake Wenatchee is a high mountain lake located in the Wenatchee National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. Fed by the Little Wenatc… |
| Lake Osoyoos, WA / Canada (British Columbia, Canada, Canada, North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
208 ft | Also known as Osoyoos Lake Lake Osoyoos spans more than 5,700 acres and straddles the border of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state in the United States. The Okanagan… |
| Banks Lake, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
177 ft | Banks Lake is a 27 mile equalizing reservoir and part of the Columbia Basin Project, a major water resource project to provide irrigation water to fer… |
| Potholes Reservoir, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
142 ft | Potholes Reservoir was formed by the building of the O’Sullivan Dam which is one of the largest earthfill dams in the United States. The name “pothole… |
| Sun Lakes (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
85 ft | Also known as Blue Lake, Deep Lake, Soap Lake, Dry Falls Lake, Lenore Lake, Park Lake, Meyers Lake, Mirror Lake, Perch Lake, Alkali Lake, Green Lake, Castle Lake All kinds of recreation await visitors to Sun Lakes in Washington’s North Central region. These mostly natural lakes all share a common origin, having… |
| Quincy Lakes (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
54 ft | Also known as Quincy Lakes Wildlife Area, Quincy Lake, Evergreen Reservoir, Burke Lake, Stan Coffin Lake, Ancient Lakes A surreal landscape greets visitors to north-central Washington’s Quincy Lakes Wildlife Area. Pothole lakes filled by water seeping through porous lav… |
| Moses Lake, WA (North Central Washington, US West Region, USA, Washington) |
38 ft | Located where Washington State’s Pacific coast transforms into the arid desert of the eastern half, Moses Lake has over 6,800 acres of surface area en… |