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Welcome to the Spirit Lake Property Owners Association web site. We are a non-profit association of individuals and groups with a common interest in protecting and preserving the environment of the Spirit Lake watershed. Although we started as a homeowners group, membership is open to all who share our environmental concerns.Please click on "Latest News"" to see many of the older posts containing information about developments at Spirit Lake. If you want to submit a news item, click "submit news" in the user menu to the left and submit your news. It will be reviewed and then posted. No login or password is required. The "login" section on the left is only for site developers and administrators
Spirit Lake Property Owners Association
P.O. Box 363
Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869
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The lake is still frozen over, but the ice is thin and not safe to walk on. The millpond is ice free except for the bay just northwest of the causeway. The lake has come up 16 inches since low water and is now about 44 inches below the top of the dam. That is about a foot higher than it was at this time last year. Most of the low elevation has melted. Only the very tops of the hills around the lake and shaded roads on the south shore have any snow left. That early low elevation melt explains why the lake is up now. Predicting summer levels is difficult because a lot depends on March and April rain and snow. The situation for us is not as bad as the news media make it sound for the northwest generally. The snotel station at the 4700 foot elevation near Mt. Spokane has 76% of normal water content. The most reliable of the long range forecasters are predicting wetter than usual spring weather. If that happens, we will probably be very close to normal high water this summer. Even with the current snowpack, we will be far above the very low summer levels we experienced before the millpond was fixed.
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