Big Spirit Lake · Dickinson County, Iowa
Big Spirit Lake Homes for Sale
Iowa’s largest natural lake: 5,684 acres of open water reaching north to the Minnesota line. Every active Big Spirit Lake listing is below, pulled live from the MLS.
Big Spirit Lake in figures · Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Why do buyers choose Big Spirit Lake?
The short answer: size and fishing. Big Spirit is the largest natural lake in Iowa, and the DNR manages it as one of the state’s walleye broodstock lakes.
On open water this big, the shoreline’s orientation matters: wind, waves and sunset views change from one side of the lake to the other, and so does how a dock and shoreline hold up. And a Spirit Lake address does not mean Big Spirit frontage. The city of Spirit Lake sits between the lakes, so we confirm what each listing actually fronts. For the town itself, see the Spirit Lake guide and the Orleans guide.
Area, depth (recorded 2014) and broodstock status: Iowa DNR, Fish Iowa lake database. Listings below come from the MLS feed and change continuously.
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