Surry Mountain Lake is a impoundment on the Ashuelot River in Cheshire County in southwestern New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Surry.

The reservoir was built to protect downstream communities, such as Keene, from flooding. Surry Mountain Dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1941 as an earthen rock-fill structure. Its height is , its length is at the crest, with a maximum capacity of 44,000 acre-feet and a normal capacity of 1,320 acre-feet. Both dam and reservoir are owned by the Corps of Engineers.

Surry Mountain Lake

The lake is classified as a warmwater fishery, with observed species including rainbow trout, brown trout, smallmouth and largemouth bass, chain pickerel, horned pout, and black crappie.

Surry Mountain Lake

See also

List of lakes in New Hampshire

References

Lakes of Cheshire County, New Hampshire

Reservoirs in New Hampshire

Protected areas of Cheshire County, New Hampshire

Dams in New Hampshire

United States Army Corps of Engineers dams

Dams completed in 1941

Surry, New Hampshire

Surry Mountain Lake