Explore Michigan's Lake Districts
Lake St. Clair & St. Clair River
Lake-wide
— water
— air
— wind
— waves
Tap a bay below for local boater reports
Swim & anchor bays
Drop the hook, swim, stay a while.
Places & waterways
Towns to dock at, channels to run, water worth the gas.
Anchor Bay
Bay
Harsens Island
Island
St. Clair Shores Waterfront
Waterfront town
North Channel
Channel
Middle Channel
Channel
South (Shipping) Channel
Channel
St. Clair River
River
Marine City
Waterfront town
St. Clair
Waterfront town
Lexington
Waterfront town
Lake St. Clair Metropark
Park
New Baltimore
Waterfront town
Clinton River & the Spillway
River
Grosse Pointe Shoreline
Waterfront town
Lake St. Clair is where Wake and Lake Life started. It's where we keep our boat, and if you're from Southeast Michigan, odds are it's where your summer happens too. They call it the Heart of the Great Lakes — 430 square miles of water sitting between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, shallow enough to warm up fast and big enough to never get old. Sandbar Saturdays at Muscamoot. Freighters running the shipping channel. Dock-and-dine up the Clinton River or along the Nautical Mile. The ferry to Harsens Island. And the St. Clair River pulling you north to Port Huron when you want to make a day of it. This guide is the water we actually know — the bays, the marinas, the spots worth the gas. If you know, you know. If you don't yet, start here.
Did you know?
- The St. Clair River splits into three channels at the delta - North, Middle, and South. Harsens Island sits between the Middle and South channels; Dickinson Island between the North and Middle.
- Lake St. Clair covers about 430 square miles but averages only around 11 feet deep outside the dredged shipping channel.