Diaz Lake
- Area
- 0.30 km²
- Tonight
- 44°FFair · Wind 6–17 mph NW
Diaz Lake is a lake at 1,120 m above sea level in California, United States, 0.30 km² in area and 1.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,120 m
- Length
- 1.0 km
- Shoreline
- 2.5 km
Diaz Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.5 km≈30 min to walk around
Diaz 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
Diaz 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.
Diaz Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Diaz Lake weather
Today · Fair · 44 / 63°F (7 / 17°C) · 14% chance of precipitation · Wind 6 mph NNW
Diaz Lake forecast for about 1,152 m.
- Today44°63°14%6 mph NNW
- Sat46°68°–2–17 mph NNW
- Sun48°71°–1–5 mph SSE
- Mon48°73°–2–6 mph S
- Tue48°73°–1–6 mph SSE
- Wed48°71°–1–5 mph E
- Thu48°69°4%1–5 mph SSE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 18:33 UTC.
Camping & parking near Diaz Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Diaz Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km ENE
Nearest campsite
Diaz Lake Campground
Nearest caravan site
Boulder Creek RV Resort
Nearest trailhead
Alabama Hills Trailhead
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km ENE |
| Diaz Lake CampgroundCampsite | 0.4 km NW |
| Parking | 0.4 km NE |
| Boulder Creek RV ResortCaravan site | 1.8 km SSE |
| Parking | 2.2 km N |
| Portuguese Joe CampgroundCampsite | 4.8 km NNW |
| Alabama Hills TrailheadTrailhead | 5.2 km NNW |
| Sierra View RV ParkCaravan site | 5.6 km N |
| Tuttle Creek CampgroundCampsite | 6.4 km W |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 81% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 280 m low point 1,116 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 218 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Yellow-headed Blackbird59
- Narrowleaf milkweed28
- Great-tailed Grackle27
- Yerba Mansa22
- Western Pygmy-Blue18
- Brewer's Blackbird16
Where Diaz Lake sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Diaz 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 2026-08-20)
- 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)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- 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 NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)