Lake Quinault
- Area
- 14 km²
- Tonight
- 44°FCloudy · Wind 2 mph ENE
Lake Quinault is a lake at 56 m above sea level in Washington, United States, 14 km² in area and 6.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 56 m
- Length
- 6.4 km
- Shoreline
- 20.1 km
Lake Quinault in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 20.1 km≈5 h to walk around
Lake Quinault 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 8.4 × 8.4 km
Lake Quinault 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 Quinault elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Quinault weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 44°F (7°C) · 4% chance of precipitation · Wind 2 mph ENE
Lake Quinault forecast for about 106 m.
- Tonight44°4%2 mph ENE
- Sat49°56°76%2 mph SE
- Sun49°56°76%3–8 mph ESE
- Mon47°60°15%0–5 mph SE
- Tue46°59°38%1 mph NW
- Wed46°60°22%2 mph NE
- Thu45°62°13%0–5 mph NE
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 18:26 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Quinault
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Quinault, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Willaby Creek Campground
Nearest trailhead
Quinault Rain Forest Trailhead
Nearest parking
Quinalt Rain Forest Trailhead Parking
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.7 km SSE |
| Willaby Creek CampgroundCampsite | 1.8 km SSE |
| Quinault Rain Forest TrailheadTrailhead | 1.9 km SSE |
| Falls Creek CampgroundCampsite | 1.9 km ESE |
| Parking | 1.9 km NNE |
| Quinalt Rain Forest Trailhead ParkingParking | 2.0 km SSE |
| Gatton Creek TrailheadTrailhead | 2.4 km E |
| Gatton Creek CampgroundCampsite | 2.4 km E |
| Big Spruce TrailheadTrailhead | 3.0 km E |
Slope
Share of the 8.4 × 8.4 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mostly gentle: 70% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 13.8% of the 71 km² view
- Relief in view
- 876 m low point 47 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 4.2 km; 664 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Pacific Banana Slug267
- Deer fern232
- Salmonberry223
- Pacific trillium215
- Sitka spruce197
- Western skunk cabbage181
Where Lake Quinault sits
- Region
- Washington57United States932North America1,313
Nearby places
Mount OlympusPeak · 2,432 m↑38 km NNE
Blue Glacier↑39 km NNE
Hoh Glacier1,701 m↑39 km NNE
Lake Crescent178 m↑65 km N
Mason Lake60 m↑70 km ESE
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Lake Quinault 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 2026-09-16)
- 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)
- 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)