Largest lakes & reservoirs in Color Country, UT by acres
There is no widely-accepted minimum surface area that defines a lake. What LakeLubbers describes as a lake, you might call a pond. Acreage of a lake (or sometimes square kilometers) is most often measured at the top surface area when the lake is at normal elevation. The surface area can be considerably smaller or larger when lake levels are lower or higher than normal. North America’s Lake Superior is the world’s largest freshwater lake by this measure.The other measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s water volume. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia.
You can find many of the world’s largest lakes (acres) on LakeLubbers in the comparison table below. Note: For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Acres" data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 4 articles we have published for Color Country, UT lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US West Region > Utah > Color Country, UT > Compared by surface area in acres. This list does not represent all lakes in Color Country, UT, only the 4 Color Country, UT lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name | Surface area in acres | Lake description |
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Lake Powell, AZ/UT (Arizona, Canyonlands Region, UT, Color Country, UT, North Central Arizona, US Southwest Region, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
160,800 ac | Lake Powell is located in one of Southern Utah’s most picturesque red-rock desert areas and in Arizona’s Navajo Indian Reservation. It is one of the U… |
Panguitch Lake, UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
1,248 ac | Located in the Dixie National Forest of southwestern Utah, visitors of this beautiful state won’t want to miss Panguitch Lake, along the Brian Head-Pa… |
Minersville Reservoir, UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
990 ac | Also known as Rocky Ford Reservoir Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, has a landscape characterized by breathtaking canyons, meandering rivers that flow through granite mountains, thi… |
Navajo Lake UT (Color Country, UT, US West Region, USA, Utah) |
714 ac | A piece of Mother Nature’s finest work describes the beauty of the area surrounding Navajo Lake in the Dixie National Forest in the southwest corner o… |