Alta Lake
- Tonight
- 3°CLight rain · Wind 4 km/h SE
Alta Lake is a lake at 662 m above sea level in British Columbia, Canada.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 662 m
Alta Lake 3D map
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Alta Lake terrain and contours
25 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Alta Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Alta Lake weather
Today · Light rain at night · 3 / 6°C (37 / 43°F) · 0.4 mm · Wind 4 km/h SE
Alta Lake forecast for about 662 m.
- Today3°6°0.4 mm4 km/h SE
- Sat3°5°14.9 mm6 km/h NE
- Sun3°7°2.6 mm6 km/h NE
- Mon4°8°0.8 mm2 km/h N
- Tue4°6°17.7 mm3 km/h SW
- Wed0°5°9.2 mm4 km/h SW
- Thu-3°4°1.1 mm4 km/h NE
- Fri-5°3°0.3 mm4 km/h E
- Sat1°3°2.7 mm4 km/h SW
- Sun3°5°4.9 mm3 km/h SW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Alta Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Alta Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km W
Nearest trailhead
A River Runs Through It Trailhead
Nearest caravan site
Riverside Resort Campground
Nearest campsite
Riverside Resort Campground
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km W |
| Parking | 0.7 km NNW |
| Parking | 0.7 km NNW |
| Trailhead | 0.7 km NNW |
| A River Runs Through It TrailheadTrailhead | 0.8 km NNW |
| Rainbow Lake TrailheadTrailhead | 1.7 km N |
| Riverside Resort CampgroundCaravan site | 3.3 km NE |
| Riverside Resort CampgroundCampsite | 3.5 km NE |
| Riverside Resort CampgroundCaravan site | 3.5 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 63% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 4.9% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 616 m low point 632 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Alta Lake sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-16)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)