A low ridge runs along the east side of the lake and overlooks it.

[2] Located both to the northwest and southeast of the lake in two parcels sits the 24 acre Lamberton Lake Fen Nature Preserve, managed by the Land Conservancy of West Michigan.

Lamberton Creek flows from the lake through the preserve's southeast parcel, where the fen is located.

This was due to a lower lake level caused by the deepening of the creek.

[4] In the late nineteenth century Lamberton Lake with Lamberton Creek was under consideration as one of several possible sources for the water supply of the growing city of Grand Rapids.