Updated January 30, 2023 – Ice conditions & reports for Lake St. Clair today… See the Lake St. Clair Guide’s live webcam overlooking the bay below! Scroll down for access points, places to eat and view the ice, fuel & snowmobile accessories.
Photo January 2022
Above is Fair Haven – Bouvier Bay on Lake St. Clair.
Northern Lake St. Clair Bouvier Bay ice “again” – 1st day of new ice forming – January 30, 2023. Let’s hope for a long cold spell now so our winter activities may commence in full. See below for access points for fishing, walking, and snowmobiles. Nice calm day for initial freeze so will be a good surface for walking & skating!
(Photo Bouvier Bay February 2022)
WHERE TO PARK / HAVE ICE ACCESS?
Bouvier Bay on Northern Lake St. Clair is usually the first large area to freeze first. Fishermen may park at:
1. Fair Haven DNR Launch Ramp Parking Lot & you may drive onto the Ice there as well.
2. The Raft Bar – Fair Haven on M29 in the right hand corner of this image above (when attendant is there will be fee FYI).
3. Patrons of On the Rocks Smoke House may park on their large lot also if you come in for a meal or cocktails.
Fair Haven DNR Launch above is easy access to the ice activities. The Raft Bar down the street has large “on shore” parking too for a small fee.
Downtown New Baltimore has a great pier to walk out and see the ice – don’t forget Winterfest each year too in February hosted by the Lions Club with the annual Ice Plunge for Charity! While in town you can warm up at Fin’s, On the Bay, The Blind Owl, and Little Camille’s.
Great “middle lake” – Clinton River, Harrison Township – to see the ice are the Crews Inn and Bumpers Landing!
Great “south end Lake St. Clair” restaurants to see the ice and get a good hot meal and beer include Zef’s Dockside and theWatermark in St. Clair Shores.
And the St. Clair River is ALSO a beautiful view to see the ice! Worthy of a ride to Marine City & the City of St. Clair. Late spring is especially beautiful as the ice begins breaking up on Lake Huron and starts its annual trek down the river in huge chunks. Great to take the kids and see this spectacle!
City of St. Clair – The Voyageur is right on the river and the Anchor Pointe Bistrois across from the River in the Riverview Plaza.
Don’t forget! The latest 148 page Lake St. Clair Guide comes out January 1 each year. Read online & find out where to pick up one of the 20,000 copies before they are gone @ https://www.lakestclairguide.com/magazine/
