MinnesotaNatural lakeCarver County

Lake Waconia

Lake Waconia is a 3,080-acre lake in Minnesota. You will find it in Carver County. It is managed by MN DNR / Carver County.

Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

CountiesCarver County

Coordinates44.8686, -93.7839

Surface area3,080 acres

Managed byMN DNR / Carver County

Swimming beaches on Lake Waconia

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.

Lake Waconia 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

Swimming at Lake Waconia

The closest lakes in this guide are Lake Minnetonka (Minnesota, 12 mi), Medicine Lake (Minnesota, 20 mi) and Bde Maka Ska (Minnesota, 24 mi). In all, 34 lakes in Minnesota are covered here.

Swimming season in Minnesota runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates. If the water looks like pea soup or paint, stay out and report it to the managing agency. No public sensor reports water temperature at Lake Waconia, so the panel shows air temperature and wind.

The nearest mapped swimming spot is Cedar Lake East Beach on Bde Maka Ska, roughly 24 miles away. 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 Lake Waconia. Shoreline access here is likely informal.

We check the public feeds daily, so this page will fill in if one appears. No public gauge reports the water level at Lake Waconia, so this page shows no level chart. We would rather leave the figure out than publish an estimate that nobody measured.