Lakewalk East / 26th Avenue East Beach is a Great Lakes beach in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Across 34 bacteria samples collected between 2022 and 2023 at nearby monitoring stations, it earns a Beach Safety Grade of F — Failing.
About 62% of samples at Lakewalk East / 26th Avenue East Beach exceeded the EPA Beach Action Value of 235 CFU/100 mL for Escherichia coli — the threshold at which water managers typically post a swimming advisory. In practice that means the safe-swimming limit was frequently crossed here over the monitored period. Bacteria samples exceed the safe-swimming threshold a large share of the time — this beach flags advisories often.
Read this grade as directional rather than settled: it rests on only 34 samples and has no results reported since 2023. That is enough to classify how the water has behaved, but not enough to separate this beach from another a grade away — a beach graded from thousands of samples at several stations is a firmer read. As more results are reported, the grade may shift.
Lakewalk East / 26th Avenue East Beach was not under a swimming advisory in the most recent EPA snapshot. Conditions can change quickly after heavy rain or high runoff, so it's still worth checking the current advisory the day you go.