[1] The U.S. portion of the lake is located in Saint Louis County, within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the Superior National Forest; the Canadian waters are part of Quetico Provincial Park.

Pictographs of the First Nations are visible near Lower Basswood Falls.

[2] More recent visitors to the area were French fur traders known as voyageurs,[2] and the name of Crooked Lake reportedly was derived from the French word crocher, meaning hooked.

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