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Lake · Alberta

Barrier Lake

1,374 m4,508 ft

Area: 2.92 km²
Tonight: -7°CPartly cloudy · Wind 8 km/h NW

Barrier Lake is a lake at 1,374 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 2.92 km² in area and 4.7 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,374 m
Length: 4.7 km
Shoreline: 14.2 km

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Lake

Barrier Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 14.2 km≈3½ h to walk around

3D map

Barrier Lake 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Barrier Lake terrain and contours

50 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Barrier Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Barrier Lake weather

Today · Clear · -7 / 1°C (19 / 34°F) · Wind 8 km/h NW

Barrier Lake forecast for about 1,374 m.

Today-7°1°–8 km/h NW
Sat-6°1°3.3 mm8 km/h NE
Sun-6°1°–10 km/h SW
Mon-1°6°–10 km/h SW
Tue-2°6°0.4 mm10 km/h SW
Wed-3°-1°5.4 mm7 km/h NE
Thu-4°1°7.1 mm6 km/h NE
Fri-6°-3°0.7 mm12 km/h SW
Sat-8°-1°–17 km/h SW
Sun-2°1°–18 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, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Barrier Lake

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Barrier Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
0.4 km SSE
+2 more within 0.5 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Jewell Bay Backcountry Campground
1.2 km WSW · +2 more within 4.5 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 6

Place	Distance
Parking	0.4 km SSE
Parking	0.5 km S
Parking	0.5 km SE
Jewell Bay Backcountry CampgroundCampsite	1.2 km WSW
Stoney Creek Group UseCampsite	3.3 km ENE
Quaite Valley Backcountry CampgroundCampsite	4.5 km NW

Slope

Share of the 6.7 × 6.7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

45.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

30.0%

Steep, 30–45°

21.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

2.7%

Steeper than 30°: 24.6% of the 45 km² view
Relief in view: 987 m low point 1,317 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 78.5%Bare rock / sparse 8.2%Grassland 7.3%Water 5.0%Moss & lichen 0.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.3 km of Barrier Lake.

Summit list 5

1Mount Baldy2,192 m 1.7 km SE
2Mount Baldy South2,145 m 2.6 km SSE
3Mount Baldy West2,125 m 2.7 km SSE
4McConnell Ridge1,981 m 3.0 km NNW
5Twin Towers East (Jewell Peak)2,320 m 3.2 km W

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.3 km; 545 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Canadian buffalo-berry81
Great blanketflower79
Alaskan bellflower77
Shrubby cinquefoil75
Common juniper71
Wood Lily70

Where it sits

Where Barrier Lake sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Chester Lake2,204 m28 km SSW

Downloads

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JPGBarrier Lake satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-20.

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © 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.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-20)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Barrier Lake

West → east through the centre

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite