Homes For Sale in Sturgeon Lake

About Sturgeon Lake

Sturgeon Lake is a cottage-lake area in City of Kawartha Lakes. Shoreline cottages and year-round homes ring the lake, with the surrounding township providing day-to-day services.

Waterfront inventory moves with the seasons. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of Sturgeon Lake

Sturgeon Lake is big-water Kawarthas — a wide Trent-Severn lake known for walleye and bass fishing and long boating runs. The shoreline mixes year-round bungalows, custom raised homes and the occasional luxury estate, and the market spans from affordable canal-access cottages to multi-million-dollar waterfront. Its size and the Trent-Severn connection keep demand broad: cottagers, anglers and full-time residents all buy here.

Recent listings show the full spectrum. A fully renovated 2022 all-season waterfront bungalow at 24 Riverside Drive on the Trent waterway system was listed at $699,000. A three-bedroom year-round waterfront home with canal access to Sturgeon at 9 Gold Street was offered at $649,900. An immaculate updated year-round home at 62 Bettys Bay Road was listed at $949,900. A remarkable retreat at 20 Lakeview Park Road — boathouse, bunkie, rooftop patio, 100 feet of waterfront — was offered at $1,400,000. And a five-bedroom luxury estate at 47 Kenhill Beach Road with a 17.5-by-30-foot boathouse and marine rail was listed at $1,599,900.

Canal access is Sturgeon's distinctive value tier: properties on the canals boat into the lake without paying direct-lakefront prices. Compare canal lots on navigability and dock rights, not just price — the cheapest canal access isn't always usable for a larger boat.

Waterfront realities

Big water brings big-water rules. The Trent-Severn is federally managed — docks, boathouses and shoreline alterations need Parks Canada permits, and what's grandfathered on an older lot may not be replicable. The 47 Kenhill Beach Road estate's boathouse with marine rail is the kind of structure to verify carefully: confirm its permits survive a sale.

Floodplain and water-level management apply on the system. Check conservation-authority mapping for the specific lot, ask about seasonal level changes, and get insurance quotes before you firm up — big-lake waterfront insurance is a real budget line. Most properties run on well and septic; Lindsay's proximity helps with contractors and services.

Leased waterfront access is a Sturgeon Lake niche worth understanding: one listing offered a year-round home with a two-minute stroll to leased private waterfront access on the lake. It's a legitimate low-cost entry, but the lease terms, transferability and annual costs need your lawyer's review — you're buying the house, not the shoreline.

Getting there

Sturgeon Lake wraps around Lindsay and Fenelon Falls, so services are closer than on most cottage lakes — Lindsay offers full shopping, dining, schools and a hospital. The lake is roughly an hour and a half from the GTA, making it one of the most accessible big-water options.

Because the lake is partly a residential lake, winter services and road maintenance are better than average for cottage country. Confirm your road's status in writing regardless — canal and back-bay lots vary — and note that year-round homes here genuinely support full-time living, not just winterized weekends.

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