Shell Lake is a village in the boreal forest of central Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is in the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496. This village is ninety kilometers west of Prince Albert. It was formerly part of the Rural Municipality of Shell Lake No. 495, Saskatchewan before it was absorbed in the RM of Spiritwood. The Shell Lake murders took place on a nearby farm. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahtahkakoop Cree First Nation band government.