The area around the lake is served by the route 169 which passes to the west and by the rang Saint-Isidore road (north shore), for the needs of recreational tourism activities, especially the resort.

The surface of Lake Kénogamichiche is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.

[2] This body of water is located in the hollow of a kettle formed following global warming 10,500 years ago, which followed a glaciation whose cover was about three kilometers thick.

This toponym appears in the form Kinougamichis in the Jesuit Relations of 1672 under the pen of Father Albanel.

[3] The toponym "lac Kénogamichiche" was formalized on September 5, 1968, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.