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Bull Shoals Lake

198 m650 ft
Area
192 km²
Tonight
50°FPartly cloudy · Wind 0 mph

Bull Shoals Lake is a lake at 198 m above sea level in Arkansas, United States, 192 km² in area and 62.9 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
198 m
Length
62.9 km
Shoreline
1,225.6 km
Open the 3D view
Lake

Bull Shoals Lake in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
1,225.6 km
3D map

Bull Shoals Lake 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 20 × 20 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Bull Shoals Lake terrain and contours

10 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.

Index contours every 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Bull Shoals Lake elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Bull Shoals Lake weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 50°F (10°C) · Wind 0 mph

Bull Shoals Lake forecast for about 205 m.

  • Tonight50°–0 mph
  • Sat52°79°1%0–5 mph ESE
  • Sun53°77°–0–5 mph ESE
  • Mon53°76°–0 mph
  • Tue52°75°1%0 mph
  • Wed53°78°3%0–5 mph S
  • Thu51°77°6%0–5 mph SE

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 02:35 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Bull Shoals Lake

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

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
Parking2.2 km E
Parking2.7 km E
Parking2.7 km E
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly gentle: 85% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
85.3%
Moderate, 15–30°
14.1%
Steep, 30–45°
0.5%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.1%
Steeper than 30°
0.6% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
253 m low point 127 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 65.8%Grassland 18.3%Water 13.1%Built-up 1.4%Bare rock / sparse 0.7%Cropland 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 10 km; 768 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Great Blue Heron72
  • Eastern Bluebird47
  • Bald Eagle45
  • Red-headed Woodpecker30
  • White-breasted Nuthatch28
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker28
Where it sits

Where Bull Shoals Lake sits

Region
Arkansas6United States932North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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Bull Shoals Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-14)
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)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia