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Green Lake is a city in, and the county seat of, Green Lake County, Wisconsin, located on the north shore of the lake of the same name.

Green Lake had 1,001 residents at the 2020 census, up from 960 in 2010, when the city had 491 households.

The community was established in 1847 as the village of Dartford, platted and named for Anson Dart, who arrived in the area in 1840; it changed its name to Green Lake in 1907 to reflect its lake identity.

The lake beside the city — also called Big Green Lake — is the deepest natural inland lake in Wisconsin, reaching about 237 feet deep, second in depth statewide only to man-made Wazee Lake.

Big Green Lake covers about 7,340 acres with roughly 27 miles of shoreline, and is the state's second-largest lake by volume after Lake Winnebago.

Native American tribes regarded the lake as spiritual waters long before settlement, visiting and celebrating there for many years.

Green Lake's resort era began in 1867 with the Oakwood hotel, making it the oldest resort community in the United States west of Niagara Falls.

The Green Lake Yacht Club, organized in 1894, was one of the first yacht clubs in Wisconsin, and yacht races on the lake date to the 1880s.

Tuscumbia Golf Course, founded in 1896, is Wisconsin's oldest golf course, and the area's Golf Courses of Lawsonia — including the celebrated Lawsonia Links — grew out of publisher Victor Lawson's estate.

Victor and Jessie Lawson developed a 1,100-acre lake estate from 1888; sold after their deaths and run as a luxury resort, it was bought by the American Baptists in 1943 and is now the roughly 900-acre Green Lake Conference Center.