---
type: lake
name: "Snaptail Lake"
county: "Itasca"
nearest_town: "Taconite"
lake_type: "lake"
acres: 175
max_depth_ft: 70
latitude: 47.46916
longitude: -93.37612
lake_score: 62
dnr_lake_id: "31025500"
url: https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/snaptail-lake
---

# Snaptail Lake

Lake in Itasca County, Minnesota, near Taconite

- **Surface Area**: 175 acres
- **Max Depth**: 70 ft
- **Shoreline**: 3.2 miles
- **Water Clarity**: 13 ft
- **Lake Type**: lake
- **Public Access**: 1 public boat launch (gravel or earth)
- **Lake Score**: 62/100 (composite of public data, not a visitor rating)

## About

Snaptail Lake is a 175-acre lake near Taconite in Itasca County, Minnesota. It reaches 70 feet at its deepest point, and has roughly 3.2 miles of shoreline. DNR surveys put average water clarity at about 13 feet, clearer than most lakes in the state.

Minnesota DNR fisheries surveys list 8 fish species here, including walleye, northern pike, largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, and pumpkinseed. The most recent fisheries survey on file dates to 2025.

There is one public boat launch (gravel or earth surface). Ice typically goes out around April 14, based on 36 years of DNR ice-out records.

## Access

- **Public access**: 1 public boat launch (gravel or earth)
- **Managed by**: Not recorded
- **Launch fee**: Free at DNR public water accesses

## Fishing

- **Species on DNR survey**: 8
- **Stocked**: No
- **Last DNR survey**: 2025
- **Special regulations**: No
- **Ice fishing**: Yes

## Activities

Fishing, Ice Fishing, Boating, Paddling

## Amenities

Boat Ramp

## Fish Species

Walleye, Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Yellow Perch, Brown Bullhead

## Ice-Out

- **Median ice-out**: April 14
- **Years of record**: 36
- **Earliest**: 2012-03-24
- **Latest**: 2013-05-11

## Nearby Lakes

- [Bass Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/bass-lake-marble) - 2.1 miles, 131 acres
- [Lawrence Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/lawrence-lake) - 2.3 miles, 437 acres
- [Lower Balsam Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/lower-balsam-lake) - 2.5 miles, 259 acres
- [Crooked Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/crooked-lake) - 2.7 miles, 465 acres
- [Thirty Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/thirty-lake) - 3.2 miles, 121 acres
- [Upper Hanson Lake](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/upper-hanson-lake) - 3.5 miles, 131 acres

## Links

- [Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=47.46916,-93.37612)
- [Minnesota DNR LakeFinder](https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/lake.html?id=31025500)
- [All lakes in Itasca County](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county)

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*Source: [MinneLakes.org](https://www.minnelakes.org/lakes/itasca-county/snaptail-lake)*