Ghost Lake
- Area
- 11 km²
- Max depth
- 34 m
- Tonight
- -6°CPartly cloudy · Wind 14 km/h NW
Ghost Lake is a lake at 1,191 m above sea level in Alberta, Canada, 11 km² in area and 13.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,191 m
- Length
- 13.6 km
- Shoreline
- 53.9 km
Ghost Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 53.9 km
Ghost Lake 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 15.6 × 15.6 km
Ghost Lake terrain and contours
20 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.
Ghost Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Ghost Lake weather
Today · Clear · -6 / 0°C (21 / 32°F) · Wind 14 km/h NW
Ghost Lake forecast for about 1,191 m.
- Today-6°0°–14 km/h NW
- Sat-4°1°2.5 mm13 km/h E
- Sun-5°-1°–20 km/h SE
- Mon-5°0°–13 km/h SE
- Tue-3°7°0.5 mm6 km/h W
- Wed-1°0°5.9 mm7 km/h E
- Thu-3°0°2.7 mm7 km/h E
- Fri-6°-3°0.3 mm9 km/h W
- Sat-4°0°–18 km/h W
- Sun-2°3°–17 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 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Ghost Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Ghost Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.9 km N
Nearest caravan site
3.9 km NE
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.9 km N |
| Parking | 1.0 km N |
| Parking | 1.1 km NNW |
| Caravan site | 3.9 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 15.6 × 15.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 95% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.3% of the 243 km² view
- Relief in view
- 386 m low point 1,148 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 7.8 km; 226 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Richardson's Ground Squirrel19
- Shrubby cinquefoil17
- Showy Locoweed17
- Prairie pasqueflower14
- Common cowparsnip13
- Domestic Horse13
Where Ghost Lake sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Ghost Lake downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)