Michigan lake depth maps
Cedar Hedge Lake depth map
Cedar Hedge Lake in Grand Traverse County, Michigan reaches a depth of 69 feet. Cedar Hedge Lake is charted here across 7 closed depth contours, from the 5 ft line down to 60 ft, enclosing about 195 acres of water. Half of that water lies inside the 20 ft line, and only 7 acres lie inside the deepest one. Every contour is on the interactive map below, free and without an account.
Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record). Contours closed, checked and area-computed by Jordan Carter, founder of GilledIt · page updated
Cedar Hedge Lake depth chart: 7 depth contours from 5 to 60 ft
Data: Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours (public record), retrieved August 2026 · depths change over time · not for navigation
| Depth contour | Water inside it | Share of mapped water |
|---|---|---|
| 5 ft | 195 acres | 100% |
| 10 ft | 117 acres | 60% |
| 20 ft | 95 acres | 49% |
| 30 ft | 75 acres | 38% |
| 40 ft | 49 acres | 25% |
| 50 ft | 26 acres | 13% |
| 60 ft | 7 acres | 3.6% |
Acreages are computed from the closed Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours contour rings, with islands subtracted. Shares are of the 195 acres inside the outermost charted contour (the 5 ft line), which is the outer edge of the mapped water, several state files carry no 0 ft shoreline line, so this is not the same as a share of the lake's published surface area. The survey also records a 69 ft sounding, marked as a point rather than a closed contour, so it is not charted as a band.
Fishing Cedar Hedge Lake: a wide shallow flat over a deep hole
The survey encloses about 195 acres of Cedar Hedge Lake inside its 5 ft contour, and half of that water lies inside the 20 ft line, so most of this Grand Traverse County water is shallow and the depth is concentrated in one part of the basin. Between 5 and 10 ft the mapped water sheds 78 acres in 5 ft of depth, the sharpest change on the chart, start on that band, because it is where the bottom stops being flat. 7 acres, 3.6% of the mapped water, lie inside the deepest 60 ft contour, toward the southwestern corner of the lake. At 69 ft this is two-story water: the basin can stay cold below the summer thermocline while warm-water fish stay up on the 5-to-20 ft ground, and the fish that move between the two do it along the 5–10 ft break at first and last light.
Ice fishing on Cedar Hedge Lake
Deep water like Cedar Hedge Lake freezes later and less evenly than the shallow lakes around it, and the winter bite sets up on the first real break, not out over the 60 ft hole. That edge is the 5–10 ft band on the chart above, where 78 acres of bottom tilt away, and panfish and walleye work up and down it through the day. By late ice the fish push back onto the 5-to-20 ft flat. Check ice thickness locally before you walk out.
Cedar Hedge Lake depth map FAQs
- How deep is Cedar Hedge Lake?
- Cedar Hedge Lake reaches a maximum depth of 69 feet in the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey. Most of it is far shallower: the survey charts 7 closed depth contours over about 195 acres, and half of that water sits inside the 20 ft line. The 69 ft figure is a single recorded sounding rather than a closed contour, so the deepest line you can actually trace on the map is 60 ft.
- Where is the deepest part of Cedar Hedge Lake?
- The deepest charted water on Cedar Hedge Lake lies inside the 60 ft contour, toward the southwestern corner of the lake. That contour encloses 7 acres, 3.6% of the mapped water, so it is a small target on a small water, the depth chart above gives the contour to line up on.
- How much of Cedar Hedge Lake is shallower than 20 feet?
- About half. The 20 ft contour encloses 95 acres of the roughly 195 acres inside the outer 5 ft line, so the other half of the water is shallower than 20 feet. The sharpest drop is between 5 and 10 feet, where the mapped water sheds 78 acres.
- How accurate is this Cedar Hedge Lake depth map?
- The contours come from the Michigan DNR Inland Lake Contours survey, retrieved August 2026 and last rebuilt on August 19, 2026. Depths change over time with water levels and sediment, so treat this map as a planning guide for fishing, and never use it for navigation. Acreages are computed from the published contour geometry, not from a separate area survey, so read them as close approximations.
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Mapped fishing venues near Cedar Hedge Lake
Cedar Hedge Lake in the venue directory covers access and fishing details for this water.
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