Burt Lake is a lake in Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

. The western shore of the lake is on the boundary with Emmet County. The lake is named after William Austin Burt, who, together with John Mullett, made a federal survey of the area from 1840 to 1843. The lake is approximately long from north to south, about at its widest, and at its deepest. Major inflows to the lake are the Maple River, which connects with nearby Douglas Lake, the Crooked River, which connects with nearby Crooked Lake, the Sturgeon River which enters the lake near the point where the Indian River flows out of the lake into nearby

Mullett Lake Mullett Lake is a lake in Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The lake is named after John Mullett, who, together with William A. Burt, made a federal survey of the area from 1840 to 1843. A neighboring lake was named after Burt. Hi ...

and the Little Carp River which enters on the northern end of the lake. The lake is part of the

Inland Waterway A waterway is any navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other ways. A first distinction is necessary bet ...

, by which one can boat from Crooked Lake several miles (km) east of Petoskey on the Little Traverse Bay of

Lake Michigan Lake Michigan ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and depth () after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the ...

across the northern tip of the lower peninsula's so-called mitten to Cheboygan on

Lake Huron Lake Huron ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan. The name of the lake is derived from early French ex ...

. Along with nearby

and Black Lake, it is noted for its population of

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, which briefly held the record of largest sturgeon caught in the USA. YMCA Camp Al-Gon-QuianAnn Arbor YMCA Camp Al-Gon-Quian
and

Burt Lake State Park Burt Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering approximately on the south shore of Burt Lake at Indian River, Michigan, Indian River in Cheboygan County, Michigan, Cheboygan County, Michigan. The state park features of sandy shoreli ...

are both located on the southern shore of the lake. The unincorporated community of Burt Lake is on the southwest shore on M-68.

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passes to the east of the lake, with two interchanges near the south end of the lake at the unincorporated community of Indian River.

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Burt Lake Preservation Association
{{authority control Bodies of water of Cheboygan County, Michigan Lakes of Michigan Lakes of Emmet County, Michigan Tributaries of Lake Huron

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