Avalanche Lake
- Area
- 0.06 km²
- Tonight
- 23°FCloudy · Wind 5–9 mph NW
Avalanche Lake is a lake at 873 m above sea level in New York, United States, 0.06 km² in area and 0.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 873 m
- Length
- 0.7 km
- Shoreline
- 1.9 km
Avalanche Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.9 km≈30 min to walk around
Avalanche Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Avalanche Lake terrain and contours
50 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m 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.
Avalanche Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Avalanche Lake weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 23°F (-5°C) · Wind 5–9 mph NW
Avalanche Lake forecast for about 1,016 m.
- Tonight23°–5–9 mph NW
- Sat30°47°–2–7 mph NW
- Sun37°52°–3–8 mph SW
- Mon28°49°4%9 mph W
- Tue25°39°4%3–8 mph N
- Wed33°43°7%3 mph S
- Thu40°50°28%9 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 22:36 UTC.
Camping & parking near Avalanche Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Avalanche Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
1.4 km SW
Nearest parking
Lot 4
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 26.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 813 m low point 745 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 Avalanche Lake sits
- Region
- New York58United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Lake Tear of the Clouds↑3.8 km SE
Mount MarcyPeak · 1,629 m↑4.1 km ESE
Henderson Lake↑9.2 km WSW
Mirror Lake↑17 km N
Lake Placid566 m↑20 km N
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Avalanche Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-11)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- 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 NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)