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Buffalo Lake

781 m2,562 ft
Tonight
-1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 34 km/h NW

Buffalo Lake is a lake at 781 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada.

All facts
Surface elevation
781 m
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3D map

Buffalo 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

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Buffalo Lake terrain and contours

2 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 10 mShowing west → east through the centre

Buffalo Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Buffalo Lake weather

Today · Partly cloudy · -1 / 2°C (30 / 36°F) · Wind 34 km/h NW

Buffalo Lake forecast for about 781 m.

  • Today-1°2°–34 km/h NW
  • Sat-3°3°–23 km/h NW
  • Sun-3°1°–17 km/h SE
  • Mon-2°3°–17 km/h SE
  • Tue0°3°0.1 mm11 km/h NW
  • Wed-2°1°4.2 mm14 km/h NE
  • Thu-2°-1°5.6 mm14 km/h NE
  • Fri-2°-1°0.6 mm12 km/h N
  • Sat-4°0°0.9 mm15 km/h W
  • Sun-1°3°–13 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Buffalo Lake

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

  • Nearest campsite

    Rochon Sands Campground

    0.7 km ESE · +2 more within 8.0 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest parking

    0.9 km ESE

    +2 more within 1.0 km

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Rochon Sands CampgroundCampsite0.7 km ESE
Parking0.9 km ESE
Parking1.0 km ESE
Parking1.0 km ESE
Ol' MacDonalds ResortCampsite4.5 km SW
Pelican Point CampgroundCampsite8.0 km NE
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
99.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
0.2%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
55 m low point 780 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 57.4%Trees 22.0%Grassland 16.7%Cropland 1.9%Built-up 0.8%Wetland 0.7%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 180 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • American White Pelican15
  • Marbled Godwit14
  • Franklin's Ground Squirrel13
  • Black-necked Stilt12
  • Franklin's Gull12
  • Forster's Tern11
Where it sits

Where Buffalo Lake sits

Region
Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

Buffalo Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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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 2026-09-17)
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)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia