There is no highway access, but the lake is reachable by float plane. Cree Lake (Crystal Lodge) Airport (bush strip) and Cree Lake (Crystal Lodge) Water Aerodrome serve Crystal Lodge, a fly-in fishing lodge.
■ Cree Lake settlements
A Dene settlement with an airport was located on the south-west shore of the lake (at coordinates 57°21′15.19″N 107°7′41.52″W). It may have been the location of a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post from 1891 to 1902. In 1971 there were 36 residents (22 were First Nations). Another settlement was located at the north-east end of the lake near the Cree River outflow. In the 1960s it had an airport, a small log church and numerous houses (near co-ordinates 57°42′39″N 106°15′49″W). A fish plant on Turner Island was built in 1957 by Waite Fisheries and is located at co-ordinates 57°23′57″N 106°40′10″W. Other locations on Cree Lake with populations in the 1970s were the Cree Lake Weather Station in the south-west at the entrance to Cable Bay and airfield (with 10 people) operated by the Canadian Government, the Cree Lake D.N.S. Radio Station (Department of Northern Saskatchewan) on Turner Island (with 10 people) and a camp at the north-end (with 15 people).Although officially named Cree Lake in 1938 the lake lies in the traditional territory of the Dene and the English River Dene Nation based in Patuanak has reserves at three sites on the lake. One site on the south west side of the lake is 1607.40 hectares (3971 acres) another on Cable Bay is 538.30 hectares (1350 acres) and another on Barkwell Bay at the northern end of Cree Lake is 2344 hectares (5792 acres).
■ Fish species
Fish species include walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, lake trout, lake whitefish, cisco, burbot, Arctic grayling, white sucker and longnose sucker.
■ Islands
The lake has several named and unnamed islands. Some of the named islands include: Auriat Island Cowie Island Dahl Island Davies Island Dixon Island (Saskatchewan) Fleming Island (Saskatchewan) Ispatinow Island - (containing Cree Lake (Crystal Lodge) Airport and Crystal Lodge) 57°27′43.07″N 106°45′7.09″W Johns Island (Saskatchewan) Keeping Island Laurier Island Pelletier Island Prowse Island Ring Island Rogers Island (Saskatchewan) Turner Island (Saskatchewan) 57°23′22.14″N 106°38′19.66″W

NE 205.6Km	Wollaston Lake
SW 209.0Km	Churchill Lake
SW 219.0Km	Pinehouse Lake
SW 223.1Km	Peter Pond Lake
SE 249.4Km	Reindeer Lake
NW 260.9Km	Uranium City
NW 261.6Km	Lake Athabasca
SE 275.8Km	Lac la Ronge
NW 284.9Km	Athabasca River

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