KentuckyReservoir

Kentucky Lake

Kentucky Lake covers about 160,309 acres of the outflow = in Kentucky. TVA manages it.

Photo: George Green, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates37.0126, -88.2700

Surface area160,309 acres

Max depth75 ft

Riveroutflow =

Managed byTVA

Swimming beaches on Kentucky Lake

No named swimming beach is mapped yet for this lake. Access is through agency day-use areas and boat ramps listed below. We add beach pages only when we can confirm a name, coordinates and an operating agency.

Kentucky Lake on the map

Lake center, swimming spots and access points.

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Weather and water temperature

Air temperature and wind from Open-Meteo. Water temperature only when the lake has a public sensor.

Weather data by Open-Meteo

A closer look at Kentucky Lake

Kentucky Lake sits at 37.0126, -88.2700. Water leaves through the outflow =. The deepest point on record is about 75 feet. It lies at roughly 354 feet of elevation.

Where an agency publishes a figure, we show it with the time it was taken; here there is none. No public gauge reports the water level at Kentucky Lake, so this page shows no level chart. We would rather leave the figure out than publish an estimate that nobody measured.

If you need a named beach, Barkley Lake on Lake Barkley is some 3 miles from here. Absence from these datasets does not mean the water is closed, only that no agency lists a beach. No agency lists a named swimming spot at Kentucky Lake. Shoreline access here is likely informal.

Nearby water includes Lake Barkley (Kentucky, 3 mi), Devils Kitchen Lake (Illinois, 62 mi) and Little Grassy Lake (Illinois, 65 mi). In all, 18 lakes in Kentucky are covered here.

Algae blooms are seasonal and local: look for posted signs at the ramp or park entrance. Water temperature is not measured at this lake by any public agency we read. Season dates vary by park; the operating agency publishes them each spring.