Chain Lake is a large pond or small lake in Mackinac County near St. Ignace in the U.S. state of Michigan at an elevation of 600 feet (180 m).

This trail uses the right-of-way abandoned by a spur line of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway, a logging-era railroad that helped remove most of the old-growth timber from around the lake.

Second-growth woodland surrounding the small sheet of water is owned by the private sector and by Hiawatha National Forest.

[3] In winter seasons with suitable weather conditions it can be used to play pond hockey.

It may be named for being part of a "chain" of streams and lakes that offered alternative canoe passage from St. Ignace westward.