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Lake Eleanor
- Area
- 4.25 km²
- Tonight
- 41°FFair · Wind 10–15 mph ENE
Lake Eleanor is a lake at 1,419 m above sea level in California, United States, 4.25 km² in area and 5.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,419 m
- Length
- 5.0 km
- Shoreline
- 13.6 km
Lake Eleanor in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 13.6 km≈3½ h to walk around
Lake Eleanor 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7 × 7 km
Lake Eleanor terrain and contours
50 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.
Lake Eleanor elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Eleanor weather
Tonight · Fair · 41°F (5°C) · Wind 10–15 mph ENE
Lake Eleanor forecast for about 1,447 m.
- Tonight41°–10–15 mph ENE
- Sat43°75°–0–10 mph S
- Sun43°75°–5 mph SE
- Mon42°75°3%5–10 mph SSW
- Tue43°75°3%0–5 mph SSE
- Wed44°75°2%0–5 mph W
- Thu42°73°15%0–5 mph SSE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 01:56 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Eleanor
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Eleanor, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lake Eleanor Campground
Nearest parking
1.1 km SW
Nearest trailhead
Lake Eleanor Trailhead
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lake Eleanor CampgroundCampsite | 0.8 km NNE |
| Parking | 1.1 km SW |
| Parking | 1.1 km SW |
| Lake Eleanor TrailheadTrailhead | 1.4 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.4 km NNW |
| Cherry Valley CampgroundCampsite | 3.5 km WNW |
| Shingle Springs TrailheadTrailhead | 3.9 km N |
Slope
Share of the 7 × 7 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 56% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 9.8% of the 49 km² view
- Relief in view
- 907 m low point 1,270 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 3.5 km; 118 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Heart-leaf milkweed12
- Harlequin Lupine10
- Slender-stemmed monkeyflower9
- Mountain Misery8
- Fort Miller clarkia7
- Pale Swallowtail6
Where Lake Eleanor sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
- Protected area
- Yosemite National Park10
Nearby places
Hetch Hetchy↑7.6 km SE
Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne↑12 km ESE
Yosemite Valley↑35 km SSE
Mirror Lake1,249 m↑38 km SE
Tenaya Canyon↑38 km SE
More in the Sierra Nevada 6
Lake Eleanor 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 2026-08-30)
- 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)