Description
Grouse Lake is located on Kenai Peninsula, 2.3 mi. SE of King Lake and 36 mi. NE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low. 1.5 mile long.
History
Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, probably for the Willow Ptarmigan or Snow Grouse (Lagopus lagopus lagopus), which breeds in northern Alaska and winters only as far south as Sitka and the Aleutian Island (Pearson, 1944, pt. 2 p. 20).