Okauchee Lake

What to know before you go to Okauchee Lake

Okauchee Lake sits at 43.1122, -88.4481. The Oconomowoc River carries the outflow.

The closest lakes in this guide are Oconomowoc Lake (Wisconsin, 1 mi), Lac La Belle (Wisconsin, 4 mi) and Nagawicka Lake (Wisconsin, 4 mi). Wisconsin has 34 lakes on this site in total.

Water temperature is not measured at this lake by any public agency we read. Check the operating agency for advisories before any water contact, especially for blue-green algae in late summer. Most Wisconsin day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it.

The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Okauchee Lake. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued. Bender Beach, on Lac La Belle, is the closest named beach in this guide, about 3 miles off. A missing beach entry often just means nobody has catalogued the access point yet.

For a lake this size, the park office is the fastest way to learn how the water sits today. Okauchee Lake has no public water level gauge that we can read, so there is no level chart here. An invented number would be worse than none.