Kaw Lake, Reservoir in northern Oklahoma, United States.

Kaw Lake is a 17,040-acre reservoir in northern Oklahoma, mostly in Kay County and partly in Osage County. Its 9,466-foot-long dam stands 121 feet above the stream bed, with a concrete spillway of repeated bays where water falls in white sheets. The lake's normal level is 1,010 feet.

Congress approved plans for the dam in 1962, and construction followed over the next decade. The original town of Kaw was flooded to create the lake, with the project reaching completion in the mid-1970s.

Kaw City was moved about two miles west in the late 1960s before the original townsite was covered by the lake in 1975. Camp McFadden, created in 1927 as a children's camp on the Kygar ranch, now occupies over 250 acres on the west shore and hosts team building, reunions, youth and church camps, and weddings.

The lake offers nine recreation areas with multiple boat ramps and two marinas for water activities. Visitors will find over 300 camping sites with water and electrical hookups spread around the shoreline.

The City of Enid began building a 70-mile pipeline in 2020 to draw 10 million gallons a day from Kaw Lake as its municipal water source. The lake's dam, 9,466 feet long and 121 feet high, also feeds a hydroelectric plant that supplies over 35 municipal electrical systems in Oklahoma and southern Kansas.