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Alma Lake, located in North-Central Wisconsin in Vilas County, near the town of St. Germain, is a small 57.7-acre (233,500 sq. meters) lake with a maximum depth of 5.5 meters (18 feet), and a mean depth of 3.4 meters (11 feet). It is a seepage lake with no inflowing or outflowing streams; however, Alma lake is connected by a channel to Moon lake. Alma Lake has one public boat landing located on Red Oak Road, off Birchwood Drive. The lake always has a slow no wake ordinance.

Alma lake becomes stratified during the summer, turns over and completely mixes in the fall, re-stratifies, and mixes again during spring. This makes it classified as a dimictic lake. In winter the lake is frozen for an average of 150 days, with water temperatures dropping to 0 degrees Celsius just below the ice. The highest recorded temperature in the lake was 27.6 degrees Celsius in July of 2006. Alma Lake has relatively clear water, with Secchi disk depths averaging 2.8 meters (9.3 feet) in 2019. Alma Lakes watershed is made up of largely of forests. Home developments are the most significant development in the area, taking up only 2% of the 789,140 square meter watershed.