Portage Lake St. Joseph County, MI - Real Estate, Homes For Sale & Area Information

Portage Lake is located in Mendon Township and Three Rivers within St Joseph County, Michigan. The lake covers 510 acres and is classified as an All Sport lake. The lake shore has about 50% cottages, year round homes and vacation homes. The rest of the shoreline is a wooded area and wetlands. There is a Michigan DNR on the southwest side of the lake with restrooms, parking and boat launch. The lake has bluegill, pumpkinseed, back crappie, sunfish, bass,walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, bullhead and perch. Hunters like this lake to shoot waterfowl. Fishers Lake, Barton Lake, Howard Lake and Kimble Lake are neighbors of Portage Lake. A group called Friends of Portage Lake looks after the lake.

The lake is under less than two and half miles from several major cities: Three Rivers, MI 15 minutes, Mendon, MI 9 minutes, Chicago, IL 2 hours and 42 minutes, and Detroit, MI 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Elkhart, IN 57 minutes
South Bend, IN 1 hour and 8 minutes
St Joseph, MI 1 hour and 13 minutes
New Buffalo, MI 1 hour and 28 minutes