Moose Pond

Moose Pond is located in the towns of Bridgton, Denmark and Sweden, in the state of Maine. Camp Winona, a camp for boys,^[1] Camp Wyonegonic, a camp for girls, and Shawnee Peak Ski Area, a ski resort,^[2] are located on the lake.

Moose Pond, Spring 2009.

Statistics

Total lake area - 1,697 acres (6.87 km²) ^[3]
Maximum recorded depth - 80 feet (24 m)
Mean depth - 20 feet (6.1 m)
Volume - 30,722 acre feet (37,895,000 m³)
Watershed - 11,170 acres (45.2 km²)
Elevation - 418 feet (127 m)
Shorefront lots - 497
Approx 13 miles (21 km) long

Fishing

The lake supports landlocked salmon and lake trout in the middle basin. The pond also supports populations of largemouth bass, has maines record 11 lb large mouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, white perch, chain pickerel, hornpout, rainbow smelt, white sucker, fallfish, golden shiners, pumpkinseed sunfish and slimy sculpin.^[4]

References

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Saco River watershed
Tributaries	Bearcamp River Beech River Charles River Chocorua River Cold River Cold River (Bearcamp) Cutler River Dan Hole River Deer River Dry River East Branch Saco River East Branch Whiteface River East Fork East Branch Saco River Ellis River Hancock Brook Kezar River Little Cold River Little Ossipee River Little River Little Saco River Lovell River Mad River Middle Branch Mad River Mill Brook New River Old Course Saco River Ossipee River Pequawket Brook Pine River Rocky Branch Sawyer River Shepards River South Branch Mad River South River Swift River Swift River (Bearcamp) Tenmile River West Branch West Branch Tenmile River Whiteface River Wildcat Brook Wonalancet River
Lakes	Lake Arrowhead Balch Pond Barker Pond Broad Bay Chocorua Lake Conway Lake Dan Hole Pond Echo Lake Hancock Pond Kezar Lake Lovewell Pond Moose Pond Ossipee Lake Pine River Pond Province Lake Sand Pond Silver Lake Skelton Dam
Towns	Acton Arundel Baldwin Bartlett Biddeford Bridgton Brownfield Buxton Chocorua Conway Cornish Dayton Denmark Eaton Effingham Freedom Fryeburg Hart's Location Hiram Hollis Limerick Limington Lovell Lyman Madison Newfield Ossipee Parsonsfield Porter Saco Sebago Shapleigh Standish Stoneham Stow Sweden Tamworth Waterboro Waterford
Landmarks	Crawford Notch Maine Central Railroad U.S. Route 302 White Mountains

Coordinates: 43°58′18″N 70°48′31″W / 43.97167°N 70.80861°W / 43.97167; -70.80861

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