Specific City Ordinances

• 8 mph from sunrise to sunset.

• 5 mph from sunset to sunrise.

• 6 horsepower limit on all waters except Minnesota River.

• Boats must stay 150 feet from swim area.

• No inflatable devices.

• No scuba diving in waters within a park without a permit.

• Motors greater than 6hp may be attached as long they are not used on city lakes.

• No motorboats.

• No watercraft on lake from Jan. 1 through June 14 each year.

• No motorboats except those powered by electric motors, not to exceed 45 lbs. of thrust, and operated by persons with a handicap.

• No motorboats allowed.

• 15 mph noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

• Observer required for water-skiing.

• No motors allowed.

• 10 horsepower limit. 

• 10 horsepower limit. 

• Electric motors only on the entire lake. 

• Slow-no wake speed 150 feet out from Riley Lake Park (800 feet in length).

• Designated water ski launch area.

Round Lake (27-71)

• Electric motors only.

• Excursion boats owned and operated by the city are exempt.

All lakes

No mechanically propelled watercraft.

• Slow-no speed at all times in the channel between the two halves of the lake.

• Slow-no wake speed on the entire lake when the water level reaches 981.1 feet and remains there for at least 3 consecutive days

• Slow-no speed at all times in the channel between the two halves of the lake.

• Slow-no wake speed on the entire lake when the water level reaches 981.1 feet and remains there for at least 3 consecutive days

• Slow-no wake speed within 250’ of shore, whenever water level reaches 957.8 feet for a period of 3 consecutive days or more.

• 40 mph from sunrise to sunset.

• 15 mph from sunset to sunrise.

• Slow-no wake speed within 150 feet of swimmers, anchored or moored rafts or watercraft, shoreline or docks.

• Personal Watercraft:

1. no operation from 6 p.m. to 8 ; (State law supersedes - statewide starting time is 9:30am)

2. no wake jumping within 100 feet of another watercraft, including another personal watercraft. (State law supersedes ordinance – distance is now within 150 feet of another craft)

Cedar Island Lake (27-119), Eagle Lake (27-111), Edward Lake (27-121), Fish Lake (27-118), Pike Lake (27-111 same as Eagle Lake), Rice Lake (27-116), Weaver Lake (27-117)

• Restricts docks, mooring and other structures. Call city.

• Permit required for placement of water obstacles.

• Slow-no wake zone 100 feet from moored or anchored watercraft, person in water or on shore.

• 40 mph on ALL LAKES sunrise to sunset.

• 15 mph sunset to sunrise.

• Exceptions:

• -15 mph at all times on Edward Lake, Pike Lake, Fish Lake's southwest bay, Mariner Point Channel, and Rice Lake west of Interstate 94;

1. slow-no wake speed in designated areas, including channel between Eagle and Pike Lakes;

2. slow-no wake speed on all of Fish Lake from sunset to 9 a.m.;

3. slow-no wake speed 24 hours a day when lake levels exceed 892.0 feet.

• Counterclockwise travel on Fish & Weaver Lake, except under certain provisions.

• Restricts overnight docking of watercraft.

Medicine Lake

• High water ordinance when water level exceeds 889.4 feet for at least three consecutive days until water level recedes below 889.4 feet for at least three consecutive days.

• Slow-no speed at all times in the channel between the two halves of the lake.

• Slow-no wake speed on the entire lake when the water level reaches 981.1 feet and remains there for at least 3 consecutive days

Holy Name Lake (27-158)

• Electric motors and steam engines only

Mooney Lake (27-134)

• 5 horsepower limit.

• No motorboats from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

• 8 mph on lakes.

• 2 mph in channels.

• Electric motors only.

• Permits required for boat and motor.

• No boats on water from midnight to sunrise.

• Age restrictions for boat operation.

• Slow-no wake speed on the Mississippi River from the Plymouth Avenue Bridge at River Mile 855.0 to the railroad bridge just upstream from the Washington Avenue bridge at River Mile 853.0.

• 40 mph sunrise to sunset;

• 20 mph sunset to sunrise the following day, from the head of commercial navigation at River Mile 857.6 to the Plymouth Avenue bridge at River Mile 855.0;

• 20 mph from the railroad bridge at River Mile 853.0 to the railroad bridge just upstream from the Lake Street bridge at River Mile 850.3.

All lakes and rivers Shady Oak Lake (27-89), Spring Lake ( ), Holiday Lake (27-90 ), Lone Lake (27- 94), Windsor (27-82), Minnetoga (27-88), Glen (27-93), Libbs Lake (27-85), Grays Bay (27-133 ), Lake Rose (27-92), Wing Lake (27-91), Mud Lake (27-88)

• No docks or other structures that affect navigation.

• Electric motors only.

• Exceptions:

1. Gray’s Bay;

2. Libb's Lake;

3. Shady Oak Lake;

4. Minnehaha Creek from Gray’s Bay to the railroad right-of-way (830 feet west of County Road 73);

5. the northerly extension of Atwater Street to the City of St. Louis Park boundary.

• 25 horsepower limit for Shady Oak Lake.

• No water skiing on Libb's Lake and Shady Oak Lake.

• No swimming in the channel that divides Shady Oak Lake.

• No swimming in the channel from Libb's Lake to Gray's Bay.

• Incorporates LMCD Ordinances

• 5 horsepower limit.

• 10 horsepower limit.

• Incorporates LMCD Ordinances

• 40 mph from sunrise to sunset.

• 15 mph from sunset to sunrise.

• Slow-no wake speed within 150 feet of swimmers, anchored or moored rafts or watercraft, shoreline or docks.

• Personal Watercraft:

1. no operation from 6 p.m. to 8 am; (State law supersedes - statewide starting time is 9:30am)

2. no wake jumping within 100 feet of another watercraft, including another personal watercraft. (State law supersedes ordinance – distance is now within 150 feet of another craft)

• Incorporates LMCD Ordinances

Mooney Lake (27-134) 

• 5 horsepower limit.

• No motorboats from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

Medicine Lake

• High water ordinance when water level exceeds 889.4 feet for at least three consecutive days until water level recedes below 889.4 feet for at least three consecutive days.

Pike Lake (27-111 same as Eagle Lake)

• 15 mph at all times.

• No motorboats.

• 5 horsepower limit.

• No motorboats from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

• 5 horsepower limit.

• No motorboats from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

Richfield Lake (27-21), Wood Lake (27-26), Legion Lake (27-24), Mother Lake (27-23)

• Restricts swimming.

• No boating on any body of water in the city.

• No ice fishing.

• No snowmobiling.

• Slow-no wake speed when traveling to and from Upper and Middle Twin Lake from noon to 6 p.m.

• Water skiing permitted from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

• No motorized watercraft from one hour after sunset to sunrise the following day.

Ryan Lake (27-50)

• Water skiing permitted from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

• No motorized watercraft from one hour after sunset to sunrise the following day.

• No motorboats on Lower Twin Lake from noon to 6 p.m. on any day, unless traveling to and from Upper and Middle Twin Lake at a slow-no wake speed.

• No motorboats on Lower Twin Lake from sunset to sunrise the following day.

All lakes and rivers: Lake Como (27-145), Christmas Lake (27-137) (part), Mary Lake (27-143), Lake Linden (27-143) & Lake Virginia (10-15) (part), Christmas Lake (27-137)

• A 15-year-old required for persons less than 15 to operate motorboats of 10 horsepower or more.

• Life jackets required for skier.

• No more than 2 skiers.

• No skiing from one-half hour after sunset to sunrise.

• 85 foot maximum tow rope.

• No skiing within 150 feet of others swimming, boating, diving flags, etc.

• Observer of at least 12 required when water skiing.

• No skiing or swimming in marked channels.

• Incorporates LMCD Ordinances