| Crescent Lake | |
| Location: | Apache County, Arizona |
| Coords: | 33.9089°N -109.4194°W |
| Basin Countries: | United States |
| Area: | 100acres |
| Depth: | 15feet |
| Elevation: | 9040feet |
| Pushpin Map: | Arizona#USA |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Crescent Lake in Arizona, USA. |
Crescent Lake is located approximately 2miles north of Big Lake. The lake sits at just over 9000feet elevation on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, as such the facilities located here are managed by that authority. Access is restricted in the winter when roads are closed due to snow, generally December to early April.
Crescent Lake has 100acres, with an average depth of 10feet. It's a highly productive lake, which allows trout to gain size quickly. However, the lake is shallow, which encourages weed growth and algae blooms, and makes it subject to late summer and winter fish kills. To manage the problem of winter kills, the Arizona Game and Fish stocks the lake with large numbers of catchable rainbow trout and brook trout each spring.
Maverick Fork is a SNOTEL weather station near Crescent Lake.[1] Maverick Fork has a dry-summer subalpine climate (Köppen Dsc), bordering on a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dsb).