Millinocket Lake (Penobscot River) Explained

Millinocket Lake is 9miles northwest of Millinocket, Maine, United States, and is drained by Millinocket Stream, which flows through the town of Millinocket into the West Branch Penobscot River 2miles south of town. The lake is fed by Sandy Stream, which drains the southeastern slopes of Mount Katahdin by tributaries including Roaring Brook, Avalanche Brook, Spring Brook, Beaver Brook, and Rum Brook.^[1] Sandy Stream is a good spawning habitat for rainbow smelt, which are a primary prey for lake trout and land-locked Atlantic salmon living in the lake.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer . DeLorme Mapping Company . Thirteenth . 1988 . Freeport, Maine . 43&51 . 0-89933-035-5.
2. Web site: Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information . 2008-07-31 . Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife . 2005-08-04 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20060903111335/http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Browseglobal.asp?PNI=LAKES_STREAMS&NoOfInputs=0&mode=DATA&TABLENAME=ADMIN_GMC03&action=DISPLAYFIELDS . 2006-09-03 . dead .
3. Web site: Millinocket Lake . Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife . State of Maine . 11 May 2016 .