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| Location | Orleans County, Vermont |
| Primary outflows | Willoughby River |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. Orleans County is one of the four northernmost counties in the U In Hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a River is the volume of Water transported by it in a certain amount of time A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, depth | 300 ft (91 m) |
Lake Willoughby is a lake in the town of Westmore in Orleans County in the northeast section of Vermont, United States. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the Orleans County is one of the four northernmost counties in the U The Northeast Kingdom is a term used to describe the northeast corner of the U Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Willoughby is a glacial lake over 300' deep in places, making it the deepest lake entirely contained in the state [1]. A glacial lake is a Lake with origins in a melted Glacier. Glacial lakes can be green as a result of pulverized minerals ( Rock flour) that support It resembles a Norwegian fjord. A fjord or fiord (fjɔːd|fiːɔːd or fiːɔːd is a long narrow Inlet with steep sides created in a valley carved by glacial activity. Lake facilities offer swimming, hiking, and ice fishing. Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through Water, usually without artificial assistance The word 'hiking' is understood in all English-speaking countries but there are differences in usage Ice fishing is the Activity of catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the Ice on a frozen body of Water There is a nude beach on the lake's southern shore. [2] Route 5A runs along the lake's eastern edge. Vermont Route 5A is a 1949 mile long alternate route of US Route 5 in northern Vermont passing along the east shore of Lake Willoughby.
The lake's southern end is surrounded by the Willoughby State Forest. This state park includes Mount Pisgah, Mount Hor, and Bartlett Mountain.
The lake is known for its clarity and chilly temperature. [3] Its waters are slightly alkaline. It may be Vermont’s premier lake trout lake, consistently producing some of the largest lake trout caught in Vermont. Willoughby also contains rainbow trout (wild and stocked), landlocked Atlantic salmon (mainly stocked), rainbow smelt, burbot, yellow perch, longnose sucker, white sucker, lake chub, common shiner and round whitefish, a native species of extremely limited distribution in Vermont. The lake contains native fish.
Footnotes
- ^ Lake Champlain is deeper at 400. Lake Champlain (French lac Champlain) is a natural freshwater Lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States 3', but partly in the state of New York and the province of Quebec
- ^ Nudity is legal in Vermont everywhere
- ^ http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec//waterq/planning/docs/pl_basin17.assessment_report.pdf retrieved August 9, 2007
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