Little Kenosee Lake Explained

Little Kenosee Lake
Location:	Moose Mountain Provincial Park, Saskatchewan
Coords:	49.8333°N -102.3338°W
Pushpin Map:	Saskatchewan#Canada
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Saskatchewan
Outflow:	Fish Creek
Basin Countries:	Canada

Little Kenosee Lake^[1] is a small lake in Moose Mountain Provincial Park in the Moose Mountain Uplands of the south-eastern corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The lake is in the Palliser's Triangle^[2] and Prairie Pothole Region of Canada. It is part of an endorheic basin lake system that flows into Kenosee Lake, which has only overflowed its banks once since records started being kept in the late 1800s.^[3] Most of the water that flows into Little Kenosee Lake comes from ground water run-off, such as from rain and melting snow. Fish Creek, the lake's outflow, is located on the southern shore. The lake and its facilities are accessed from Highway 219.

Recreation

Little Kenosee Lake is the second largest lake in Moose Mountain Provincial Park and there are many recreational amenities in and around the lake.^[4] Along the south-eastern shore of the lake is the largest campground in the park, Fish Creek Campground. Along the southern shore is a picnic area with washrooms, a boat launch, and fishing dock. Jutting out of the southern shore is a large forested peninsula with a 3.4-kilometre loop hiking trail.^[5] In the winter, there's ice fishing and snowmobiling on the lake and surrounding trails.^[6]

Fish species

Commonly found fish in Little Kenosee include yellow perch and walleye. The lake is stocked regularly with fish.^{[7] [8]}

See also

• List of lakes of Saskatchewan
• List of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin
• Tourism in Saskatchewan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Little Kenosee Lake . Canadian Geographical Names Database . Government of Canada . 20 January 2023.
2. Web site: Palliser Triangle . The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan . 28 January 2022.
3. Vance . R.E. . Last . William . Smith . A.J. . Hydrologic and climatic implications of a multidisciplinary study of late Holocene sediment from Kenosee Lake, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada . Journal of Paleolimnology . January 1997 . 18 . 4 . 365 . Kluwer Academic Publishers . 10.1023/A:1007948909342 . 1997JPall..18..365V . 127878180 . 28 January 2022.
4. Web site: Moose Mountain Provincial Park . Tourism Saskatchewan . Government of Saskatchewan . 28 January 2022.
5. Web site: Little Kenosee Peninsula Trail . Alltrails . 28 January 2022.
6. Web site: Moose Mountain Provincial Park . Outdoorsy . Outdoorsy, Inc . 28 January 2022.
7. Web site: Angler's Atlas.
8. Web site: Fishing in Little Kenosee Lake .