Grand Lake
- Area
- 1.96 km²
- Tonight
- 29°FFair · Wind 2–9 mph WNW
Grand Lake is a lake at 2,552 m above sea level in Colorado, United States, 1.96 km² in area and 2.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 2,552 m
- Length
- 2.4 km
- Shoreline
- 6.4 km
Grand Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 6.4 km≈1½ h to walk around
Grand 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 × 4.4 km
Grand Lake terrain and contours
20 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.
Grand Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Grand Lake weather
Tonight · Fair · 29°F (-2°C) · 1% chance of precipitation · Wind 2–9 mph WNW
Grand Lake forecast for about 2,556 m.
- Tonight29°1%2–9 mph WNW
- Sat24°50°30%3–12 mph E
- Sun24°56°72%1–6 mph SSE
- Mon22°53°33%1–6 mph WSW
- Tue21°56°12%2–13 mph WSW
- Wed22°55°6%3–10 mph WSW
- Thu24°56°5%2–7 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 18:46 UTC.
Camping & parking near Grand Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grand Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.6 km N
Nearest trailhead
East Shore Trailhead
Nearest campsite
Grand Lake KOA Campground
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.6 km N |
| Parking | 0.8 km NNW |
| Parking | 0.8 km N |
| East Shore TrailheadTrailhead | 1.0 km WSW |
| North Inlet Trail TrailheadTrailhead | 1.3 km N |
| Trailhead | 1.5 km ESE |
| Grand Lake KOA CampgroundCampsite | 2.4 km WNW |
| Summerland ParkCampsite | 2.6 km NE |
| East MeadowCampsite | 2.7 km ESE |
Slope
Share of the 4.4 × 4.4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 59% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 11.2% of the 19 km² view
- Relief in view
- 543 m low point 2,552 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 2.2 km; 384 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Fireweed63
- Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel55
- Showy Locoweed54
- Moose54
- Lanceleaf Stonecrop48
- Quaking aspen47
Where Grand Lake sits
- Region
- Colorado59United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Grand 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 2024 (scene 2024-07-29)
- 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)
- 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)