{{Short description|Lake in Mackinac County, Michigan, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Chain Lake | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = | image = | alt = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = Mackinac County, Michigan | group = | coordinates = {{coord|45.878|-84.757|format=dms|type:waterbody_region:US-MI|display=title,inline}} | type = Lake | etymology = | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = Moran River | oceans = | catchment = | basin_countries = United States | agency = | designation = | date-built = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | engineer = | date-flooded = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | length = | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = | elevation = {{convert|600|ft|m|abbr=on}} | temperature_high = | temperature_low = | frozen = | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities = <!-- Map --> | pushpin_map = Michigan#USA | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of the lake in Michigan. | pushpin_map_caption = | website = | reference = }} '''Chain Lake''' is a large pond or small lake in Mackinac County near St. Ignace in the U.S. state of Michigan at an elevation of {{convert|600|ft|m}}.<ref>{{GNIS|1619470}}</ref> The lake is served by Interstate 75, which provides a rest area and lake overlook for southbound drivers at mile 346. The lake is also served by the North Country Trail, running in concurrence with the St. Ignace-Trout Lake Trail. This trail uses the right-of-way abandoned by a spur line of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway, a logging-era railroad that helped remove most of the old-growth timber from around the lake. Second-growth woodland surrounding the small sheet of water is owned by the private sector and by Hiawatha National Forest.<ref name="DeLorme">{{cite book |year = 2002 |title = Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer (10th ed.) |publisher = DeLorme |location = Yarmouth, Maine |page= 94}}</ref>
The lake is noted for rock bass, bullhead, sunfish, sucker, largemouth bass, perch, and northern pike.<ref name="Hook">{{cite web |url=http://www.hookandbullet.com/fishing-chain-lake-saint-ignace-mi/ |title=Description for Chain Lake, Mackinac County, Michigan |work=Hook and Bullet |accessdate=2017-03-14 }}</ref> In winter seasons with suitable weather conditions it can be used to play pond hockey. It may be named for being part of a "chain" of streams and lakes that offered alternative canoe passage from St. Ignace westward. Although the eastern tip of the lake is less than 1 mile from Lake Huron, it drains down the Moran River and through ''Freschette Lake'' into West Moran Bay in Lake Michigan.<ref name="DeLorme"/>
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Category:Lakes of Michigan Category:Bodies of water of Mackinac County, Michigan