Description
Woodpecker Lake is located on Kenai Peninsula N of Eagle Lake, 9 mi. NE of Kenai, Cook Inlet Low.
History
Named about 1963 by officials of Kenai National Moose Range, probably for the Alaska Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides americanus fasciatus), "Far into the north it becomes the commonest of Woodpeckers." (Pearson, 1944, pt.2, p. 144).