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Lake O'Hara
- Area
- 0.30 km²
- Tonight
- -12°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW
Lake O'Hara is a lake at 2,013 m above sea level in British Columbia, Canada, 0.30 km² in area and 1.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 2,013 m
- Length
- 1.0 km
- Shoreline
- 2.9 km
Lake O'Hara in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.9 km≈45 min to walk around
Lake O'Hara 3D map
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Lake O'Hara terrain and contours
50 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.
Lake O'Hara elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake O'Hara weather
Today · Clear · -12 / -4°C (10 / 25°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW
Lake O'Hara forecast for about 2,013 m.
- Today-12°-4°–6 km/h NW
- Sat-10°-1°4.0 mm9 km/h E
- Sun-10°-1°–6 km/h E
- Mon-5°2°–1 km/h NE
- Tue-6°0°1.5 mm4 km/h W
- Wed-6°-1°14.7 mm6 km/h E
- Thu-14°-3°2.3 mm3 km/h SW
- Fri-14°-6°1.0 mm3 km/h W
- Sat-11°-7°0.6 mm6 km/h SW
- Sun-11°-4°–5 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 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake O'Hara
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake O'Hara, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Elizabeth Parker Hut
Nearest campsite
Lake O'Hara Campground
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Parker HutHut | 1.0 km W |
| Lake O'Hara CampgroundCampsite | 1.2 km NW |
| Pa10Campsite | 5.5 km E |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 40.1% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,409 m low point 1,925 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; 204 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Hoary Marmot34
- American Pika28
- Eggleaf Beardtongue22
- Columbian Ground Squirrel19
- Subalpine larch18
- White pasqueflower16
Where Lake O'Hara sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Yoho National Park4
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-17)
- 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 MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)