Lake Buel

Lake Buel is a 196-acre (0.79 km2) great pond in Berkshire County, Massachusetts just south of Route 57 and east of Great Barrington. It is surrounded by over one-hundred summer homes and a few dozen year-round homes in about a dozen separate, tight-knit neighborhoods, each with its own private or semi-private road. The roads do not interlink.

Lake Buel
September on the lake
Lake Buel
Lake Buel
LocationMonterey / New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates42°10′10″N 73°16′30″W
Typelake
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface area196 acres (79 ha)
Average depth20 ft (6.1 m)
Max. depth42 ft (13 m)
Surface elevation908 ft (277 m)
SettlementsMonterey, New Marlboro

The lake is named after Samuel C. Buel of Tyringham, Massachusetts who saved people from drowning on the lake (called at the time Six Mile Pond) on July 23, 1812.

The northern shore of the lake is in the town of Monterey and the southern shore is in New Marlborough. There is a paved boat ramp on the northwest shore owned by the Public Access Board and managed by Forests and Parks and Fisheries and Game. A portion of the Appalachian Trail crosses over a breached mill dam along the northern inlet.

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