Largest lakes & reservoirs in Lakes & Mountains Region, ME by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 16 articles we have published for Lakes & Mountains Region, ME lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US New England Region > Maine > Lakes & Mountains Region, ME > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, only the 16 Lakes & Mountains Region, ME lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Water vol. in ac-ft |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Mooselookmeguntic Lake, ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
562,000 ac-ft | (Also known as Rangeley Lakes) Mooselookmeguntic Lake is part of the Rangeley Lakes Region of Western Maine, straddling the borders of Franklin and Oxford Counties. The lake is part… |
| Thompson Lake, ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
173,712 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Thompson, The Heath) Just a one-hour drive northwest of Portland’s coastline, Thompson Lake lies in the Lakes & Mountains tourism region of southern Maine. Located at… |
| Kezar Lake, ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
87,835 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Kezar) Kezar Lake is set in wondrous scenery with the eastern shores facing New Hampshire’s White Mountains Presidential Range. Crystal clear Kezar Lake is a… |
| Highland Lake (Bridgton), ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
44,030 ac-ft | (Also known as Crotched Pond) Located in the Lakes and Mountains Region of Southwestern Maine, Highland Lake has long been a favored freshwater getaway. Once called Crotched Pond,… |
| Pleasant Lake ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
40,125 ac-ft | Pleasant Lake is a glacial ribbon lake oriented in a north-to-south direction, with a surface area of 1,332 acres and a surface elevation of 427 feet.… |
| Clearwater Lake ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
32,996 ac-ft | (Also known as Clearwater Pond) Clearwater Lake, also known as Clearwater Pond, is a natural lake tucked away in the woods of Maine’s Lakes and Mountains Region. With almost 800 acre… |
| Sabattus Pond (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
21,939 ac-ft | (Also known as Sabattus Lake) Sabattus Pond in the Lakes and Mountains region of Maine is a success story in the making. The 1,973-acre lake has a history of very poor water qualit… |
| Bryant Lake, ME (Lakes & Mountains Region, ME, Maine, US New England Region, USA) |
9,172 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Christopher, Bryant Pond) Slowly, afternoon slips into evening and the light dims on Bryant Lake. Suddenly the still water is broken as trout leap, following the evening hatch… |