Shannon Lake

Region

Kootenays

Management unit

MU 4-16

Species

Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout (last recorded 1991)The newest of these fish records is from 1991.Species from the province's fish observation records.

Lake size

Small Water (< 50 ha)

Coordinates

50.062644, -117.583281

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 Shannon Lake yet.

15.7 km of traced road to the campground by way of Shannon Creek FSR and Bonanza Creek Rd. The road at the end is a rough surface. It stops 880 m short of the campground.

Coordinates: 50.062644, -117.583281

Camping and rec sites at Shannon Lake

• Shannon Lake

  To the shore

  23 m

  
  No campsite count on file (BC Recreation Sites and Trails)
  Access: From the junction of Highway 6 and 31A in New Denver, travel north on Highway 6 for 15.2 km to Hills. Turn left onto "Bonanza Road". Follow the asphalt over the bridge, onto gravel at the beginning of the "Shannon Creek Forest Service Road". Turn right onto this road. Just before the "3 km" road marker, take the right fork. Within a kilometre the road will fork again. The left fork takes you to Wragge Beach. The right fork continues up Shannon Creek. Travel along the right fork to the "12 km" road marker. Look for a brown, 4x4 post with white lettering, signed "Shannon Lake". Fork left onto a dirt, 4 wheel drive road. The next 2 km to the trail head is rough and requires a high clearance vehicle.
  Coordinates: 50.065805, -117.582906

  The site on Recreation Sites and Trails BC

70 mdeepest29 mmean

Shannon Lake runs to 70 m (230 ft) at its deepest, by the Province survey, 1982.

The mean of 29 m (95 ft) is read off the same chart, surveyed in August 1982.

The Province sounded Shannon Lake and published the depth chart surveyed in 1982.

• Depth chart (PDF)

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

In the model Shannon Lake froze in 65 of the 65 winters since 1960. Freeze-up falls most years between 8 October and 24 October, and ice-off between 8 June and 25 June. The median winter freezes on 17 October and opens on 17 June.

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

Winter 2024-25 in the model: frozen from 28 October 2024 to 18 June 2025, 233 days.

We have no ice fishing regulation on file for Shannon 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 Shannon Lake is 0.9 C warmer than it was in the 1960s. That is 66 years of daily readings, not a forecast.

• +0.9 Csince the 1960s
• 3.7 Caverage year now
• 2.8 Caverage year then
• -6 daysbelow freezing, change

Open Shannon Lake in the app

• Wragge Lake 4 km away
• Beaver Lake 16 km away
• Slocan Lake 19 km away
• Little Wilson Lake 19 km away
• Box Lake 19 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