Flathead Lake

 INTRODUCTION:Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake by surface area that is west of the Mississippi River in the contiguous United States,taking Red Lake and Lake of the Woods to be north of the Mississippi River, rather than west of the river.
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 GET IN:Flathead Lake is slightly larger in surface area than Lake Tahoe, but it is much smaller in volume.The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial.Flathead Lake is 27.3 mi (43.9 km) long and up to 15.5 mi (24.9 km) wide.
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 Flathead Lake has a maximum depth of 370.7 ft (113.0 m),and an average of 164.7 ft (50.2 m).
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  This makes Flathead Lake deeper than the average depths of the Yellow Sea or the Persian Gulf. Polson Bay, at the lake's outlet was raised 10 ft (3.0 m) by Kerr Dam.It is one of the cleanest in the populated world for its size and type.
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