Size:
28 Kilometers in Length
5 Kilometers in Width
Maximum Depth:
10 Meters
Primary Fish Species:
Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, Muskie, Perch, Bluegill
Local Communities:
Bewdley, Hastings, Hiawatha, , Gores Landing, Keene, Harwood, McCraken Landing
Rice Lake is a lake located in Northumberland and Peterborough counties in south-eastern Ontario. The lake is located south of the city of Peterborough, and the Kawartha Lakes and north of Cobourg. It is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, which flows into the lake by the Otonabee River and out via the Trent River. The lake has a surface water level at 187 m above sea level, raised to its present height by the Hastings Dam, built in the 19th century as part of the Trent-Severn canal system. Natives called it Pemadashdakota or "lake of the burning plains".
Rice Lake is fairly shallow and was named for the wild rice which grew in it and was harvested by native people of the area. Most of the extensive stands of wild rice were wiped out when water levels were raised in the lake by the construction of the waterway.
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