Cherry Lake

Region

Kootenays

Management unit

MU 4-3

Species

Rainbow Trout (last recorded 1995), Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1995), Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1984), Longnose Sucker (last recorded 1984), Redside Shiner (last recorded 1984)The newest of these fish records is from 1995.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Coordinates

49.181511, -115.545512

A year is when the Province last recorded the fish here, not a statement that it is caught today.

We have no lake specific regulations on file for Cherry Lake yet.

32.8 km of traced road to the campground by way of Caven-Haller Creek FSR, Caven-Gilnockie Creek FSR, Teepee Creek FSR and Kikomun Rd. The road at the end is a rough surface.

Coordinates: 49.181511, -115.545512

Camping and rec sites at Cherry Lake

• Cherry Lake

  Campsites

  10 designated

  To the shore

  43 m

  
  Access: Commencing at the community of Jaffray, take the Jaffray/Baynes Lake road and travel south 16.3 km to the junction with Kikomun Road (known as the Four Corners junction). Set odometer to zero and turn right (west) onto Kikomun road. Proceed 5.7 km, crossing the single lane Bailey bridge, and turn left onto Caven Creek FSR (signed). The kilometer markers on this road start at 16km. Set odometer to zero. Travel 23.2 km to the junction with Cherry Lake FSR (signed), which is located on the right (north) side of the road, just past the 38 km sign. Travel 3.8 km on this road to the recreation site, staying right at the junction between the 41 and 42 km signs.
  Coordinates: 49.18111, -115.54156

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

13 mdeepest6.6 mmean

Cherry Lake runs to 13 m (43 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1969.

The mean of 6.6 m (22 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in November 1969.

The Province sounded Cherry Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1969. It runs to 2 sheets.

• Depth chart 1 OF 1 (PDF)
• Depth chart 1 OF 1 (PDF)

Modelled from air temperature, not an ice report. It says nothing about whether ice will hold you.

In the model Cherry Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 4 November and 19 November, and ice-off between 21 April and 12 May. The median winter freezes on 10 November and opens on 30 April.

the middle half of modelled winters the median ice cover in the median winter

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 18 November 2024 to 8 April 2025, 141 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Cherry Lake either way. Check the current BC Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis before you plan a trip.

Whether a lake is open to ice fishing says nothing about whether its ice will hold you. Ice conditions vary year to year and across a single lake. Check locally before going out, every time.

Averaged over a year, the air above Cherry Lake is 1.1 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +1.1 Csince the 1960s
• 3.9 Caverage year now
• 2.8 Caverage year then
• -11 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Cherry Lake in the app

• Fish Lake 2 km away
• 7 Mile Lake 5 km away
• Chain Lake 13 km away
• Koocanusa Reservoir 22 km away
• Baynes Lake 24 km away

All 162 lakes in the Kootenays, with today's conditions on each.

• How the score works
• Depth, and where the trout are
• A year on a trout lake
• Fishing chironomids
• Reading a depth chart
• Trout and char of BC lakes
• Camping at rec site lakes
• Winterkill explained
• When the ice goes off