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Boat ramps near St. Cloud
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Boat ramps near St. Cloud

12 stops9 watersUpdated Nov 6

142 public boat ramps on published waters near St. Cloud.

Distances are straight-line from downtown St. Cloud; below are the 12 closest, grouped by water.

Elk Lake

Recorded in Elk Lake: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Elk Lake reach 5 ft.

  1. 1Elk Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Elk Lake, ≈ 12.6 mi from downtown.

Grand Lake

Recorded in Grand Lake: Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill, and Bowfin.

Surveyed depths in Grand Lake reach 30 ft.

  1. 2Grand Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Grand Lake, ≈ 12.7 mi from downtown.

Pearl Lake

Recorded in Pearl Lake: Northern Pike, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Pearl Lake reach 15 ft.

  1. 3Pearl Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Pearl Lake, ≈ 12.9 mi from downtown.

Clearwater Lake

Recorded in Clearwater Lake: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Clearwater Lake reach 70 ft.

  1. 4Clearwater Lake, Black Pool Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Clearwater Lake, ≈ 16.6 mi from downtown.
  2. 7Clearwater Lake, Bob's Bay Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Clearwater Lake, ≈ 17.7 mi from downtown.

Lake Marie

Recorded in Lake Marie: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Lake Marie reach 40 ft.

  1. 5Marie Lake, Fairhaven Dam Millpond Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Lake Marie, ≈ 17.1 mi from downtown.

Pelican Lake

Recorded in Pelican Lake: Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Northern Pike, and White Sucker.

Surveyed depths in Pelican Lake reach 10 ft.

  1. 6Pelican Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Pelican Lake, ≈ 17.1 mi from downtown.

Horseshoe Lake

Recorded in Horseshoe Lake: Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, Bluegill, and Bowfin.

Surveyed depths in Horseshoe Lake reach 50 ft.

  1. 8Horseshoe Lake Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Horseshoe Lake, ≈ 19.2 mi from downtown.

Pleasant Lake

Recorded in Pleasant Lake: Common Carp, Bluegill, Black Bullhead, and Black Crappie.

Surveyed depths in Pleasant Lake reach 70 ft.

  1. 9Pleasant Lake (N) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Pleasant Lake, ≈ 19.5 mi from downtown.
  2. 12Pleasant Lake (S) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Pleasant Lake, ≈ 20.4 mi from downtown.

Cedar Lake

Recorded in Cedar Lake: Common Carp, Black Bullhead, Black Crappie, and Bluegill.

Surveyed depths in Cedar Lake reach 100 ft.

  1. 10Cedar Lake, Schroeder Park Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Cedar Lake, ≈ 19.8 mi from downtown.
  2. 11Cedar Lake (W) Public Water Access Site: boat ramp on Cedar Lake, ≈ 20.1 mi from downtown.

When the fish bite here

Northern Pike bites well.

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Where this guide comes from

Every sentence here is assembled from the data on the St. Cloud fishing page: road drive times where a route was built (≈ marks straight-line distances), access points from state registries, the species recorded in each water and our bite calendar, adjusted for latitude. Nothing is written by hand or generated by AI.

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