




Lake St. Clair
The heart-shaped lake between Huron and Erie, with the Grosse Pointes on its Michigan shore.
- 4 ft · first step
- 9 ft
- 13 ft
- 18 ft
- 22 ft
- 27 ft · bottom
About Lake St. Clair
Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers, a shallow 430-square-mile heart of water that is only about 27 feet deep at its dredged shipping channel and averages around 11. The freighters cross it on a straight line; everyone else fishes it, since it may be the best smallmouth and muskie water in North America.
The Grosse Pointes, St. Clair Shores and Harrison Township's boat-lined canals are the Michigan shore; Walpole Island and the St. Clair delta — the largest freshwater delta in the world — are at the north end. Metro Beach, Belle Isle and the Detroit skyline are downstream.
- 24 shore towns named, with a star on each
- 18,070 roads engraved around the shore, 30 of them labeled
- 6 depth layers, each step engraved with its depth in feet
- Compass rose, title block with coordinates, max depth and area; keyhole hanger on the back
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